On Jun 25, 12:23 pm, Robin Becker <ro...@reportlab.com> wrote: > Paul Rubin wrote: > > so does this render all the discreteness implied by quantum theory unreliable? > or is it that we just cannot see(measure) the continuity that really happens? > Certainly there are people like Wolfram who seem to think we're in some kind > of > giant calculating engine where state transitions are discontinuous.
More like that axiomatic system doesn't accurately map to reality as we currently understand it. Your posts made me think that I wasn't clear in saying e and 2 are the only "natural" bases for logs. The log function, as the inverse of the exponential, is a pretty fundamental function. The base e exponential has a load of very natural properties, f'(x) = f (x) being an example. As the smallest admissible integer base, log 2 is also a pretty natural notion, especially in computer science, or in general all that follow from binary true/false systems. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
