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Re:Indescribable numbers: The theorem that made me fall in l... by graycat on Saturday July 06, 2013 @08:41PM (#6000575)
Thanks! I wanted to say natural numbers but thought that the original quote was the integers.

No excuse! Should have at least tried to Google the quote instead of just typing quickly from undergraduate school memory!

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Re:Indescribable numbers: The theorem that made me fall in l... by saraid216 on Sunday July 07, 2013 @03:27AM (#6001387)
Stephen Hawking appears to disagree with garysweaver:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Created_the_Integers

Not that Hawking is intrinsically more qualified.

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