Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.011 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.98; '*S*': 0.00; 'programmer': 0.03; 'claimed': 0.09; 'correct,': 0.09; 'subject:set': 0.09; 'cc:addr :python-list': 0.11; 'from:addr:rosuav': 0.16; 'from:name:chris angelico': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'thu,': 0.19; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.22; 'print': 0.22; 'cc:2**0': 0.24; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'message-id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.30; "d'aprano": 0.31; 'steven': 0.31; 'subject:numbers': 0.31; 'subject:size': 0.31; 'subject:the': 0.34; 'subject: (': 0.35; 'subject:with': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'reality': 0.36; 'writes': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'mar': 0.68; 'prime': 0.74; 'to:none': 0.92 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:cc :content-type; bh=BiPPmiKgKQUthyMg1eoqF0cj14tT7oko1JkyXvwKJt8=; b=hEYYoppxQwzRYkbn+R7ZgG0Ax1aSsHPRABEspFHkK7P078RkVwJwWcgFHRtzZbO6la uIeMOch/QqWNaSdikrDBqdNWrs2ZFCzCpjk5xkH8aW5H+4GOwb+n2LRKTpPtGbr8VKuQ 9L4mYi8pIyO9sLO/obtabc1Puzye68pIS0Uj8tLtdJOsoy1gOY80JrcseatZRcbe230k mQKk5sy6blMR6zlY0Wc3PiDDbhl+2cGmjK7CUj54NW9yLNmDHL4cC5jxtspk1aiZ9EwJ XgdoR1aglwa7vDJi7ZMuUrV7re92+gkPJCfguY4/x2qIdh1bOJ6hDZ2UupcuZK9FNuBd EMvQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.66.102.39 with SMTP id fl7mr11326599pab.43.1394075689761; Wed, 05 Mar 2014 19:14:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <5317e640$0$29985$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> References: <8e4c1ab1-e65d-483f-ad9d-6933ae2052c3@googlegroups.com> <53153e66$0$24931$e4fe514c@dreader36.news.xs4all.nl> <531688b1$0$25064$e4fe514c@dreader37.news.xs4all.nl> <53169cd9$0$2923$c3e8da3$76491128@news.astraweb.com> <5316d7a0$0$2923$c3e8da3$76491128@news.astraweb.com> <53176225$0$29987$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <5317e640$0$29985$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 14:14:49 +1100 Subject: Re: Working with the set of real numbers (was: Finding size of Variable) From: Chris Angelico Cc: "python-list@python.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 15 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1394075692 news.xs4all.nl 2887 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:56698 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:67915 On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > They ask a computer programmer to adjudicate who is right, so he writes a > program to print out all the primes: > > 1 is prime > 1 is prime > 1 is prime > 1 is prime > 1 is prime And he claimed that he was correct, because he had - as is known to be true in reality - a countably infinite number of primes. ChrisA