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Re:Illegal prime by Rod on Monday January 11, 2010 @12:27PM (#1045503)
I asked: "How can an image be a number?", when I should have asked instead: "How can a number be an image?"

To use the verb to be in this scenario, I demand a one-to-one correspondence between numbers and images. If a number y can represent two distinct images x1 and x2, then we can't use "is", we can only use "can be".

Re:Illegal prime by joeyo on Tuesday January 12, 2010 @05:14AM (#1047229)
Such a strict definition prevents you for using "is" for anything at all! Is that your intention?