Re:Unnatural Keys – Nature doesn’t come with identifiers
by OJFord on Sunday May 28, 2023 @11:33AM
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You could construct a telephone numbering system where the sum of two 'real' numbers could be dialed to start a three-way conference call. That would be.. amusing, to some subset of users.
Re:Unnatural Keys – Nature doesn’t come with identifiers
by kroltan on Sunday May 28, 2023 @06:08PM
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Give everyone prime numbers and a N-way conference can be done with multiplication.
Re:Unnatural Keys – Nature doesn’t come with identifiers
by OJFord on Monday May 29, 2023 @05:31AM
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With some very long numbers and a hot market for short ones!
Re:Unnatural Keys – Nature doesn’t come with identifiers
by kroltan on Monday May 29, 2023 @11:11PM
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But think of the ease of conferencing!!!!
You just have to whip out your calculator (likely an app on your mobile device), type all the participants' numbers in, and...
Wait a minute!
Re:Unnatural Keys – Nature doesn’t come with identifiers
by kweingar on Sunday May 28, 2023 @11:45AM
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A phone number is a number in a colloquial sense (a string of digits) but I would hate to use any computer system where phone numbers are stored or reasoned about as actual mathematical numbers.
Re:Unnatural Keys – Nature doesn’t come with identifiers
by JadedBlueEyes on Sunday May 28, 2023 @01:10PM
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A phone number is definitely not a number - for example, it can often be written as starting with a +. Not only that, but one number can have multiple valid expressions (eg. a number with and without a country code). That's ignoring the different ways people like to format them (spaces, dashes, letters, etc.)
Eeehhh I'm not sure if this necessarily true. A telephone number is definitely a number but addition doesn't make all too much sense on them.
If you want to specifically talk about objects that require addition and multiplication to be properly defined on them then you can always use Groups and Rings.