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Re:Logical Literacy by Someone on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @07:14PM (#1785364)
I also think it is unfortunate that his first theorem is incorrect (n=1 cannot be written as the product of two distinct integers)

That may cost the author some of the readers for whom this text is the most educational, i.e. the ones that have trouble grasping the logic.

Re:Logical Literacy by nene on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @09:30PM (#1785670)
Even if it's not meant to be true, I find it even more disturbing that the symbolic and English formulations doesn't seem to quite match up. (IMHO the symbolic formulation doesn't state that n must be integer.)

It's like the source code and comments being out of sync - you don't know which one is wrong.

Re:Logical Literacy by mattmight on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @01:29AM (#1786194)
Another great point.

I fixed the broken theorem, and I added a blurb on the "universe of discourse."

Re:Logical Literacy by mattmight on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @09:15PM (#1785641)
Good catch!

Will fix. ;)