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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: passing a set of numbers to a function
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John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> writes:

> On Tue, 02 Feb 2016 11:18:31 +0100, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
> <PointedEars@web.de> wrote:
>
>>Stefan Ram wrote:
>>
>>>   In a JavaScript program, we cannot write expressions whose
>>>   values are sets, we only can write expressions whose
>>>   values are instances of an /implementation/ of a set.
>>
>>Like the built-in Set type.
>> 
>>>   The nature of these values depends on the chose of a
>>>   method to implement sets. Since it is difficult or impossible
>>>   to write a general implementation that implements all
>>>   properties of the mathematical concept, […]
>>
>>It may be difficult, but how did you get the idea that it would be 
>>impossible?
>
> I think he may be referring to the difficulty of implementing infinite
> sets. A computer program can only implement small finite sets (small
> relative to a googolplex).

Computer programs can implement infinite sets though only very few of
them (even fewer, compared to how many there are, than for finite sets).

<snip>
-- 
Ben.