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Old 04-July-2009, 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by HenrikOlsen View Post
Actually there seems to be more scope for a quibble than for the primes case, as natural numbers including 0 aka ℕ0 is used about as often as natural numbers without 0 aka ℕ*, so there's no real convention about which set is meant by "natural numbers".
Indeed, although of course it would be less of a problem for monolith builders as you can't build a monolith that is 0 by 1 by 4. (I was going to put an exclamation mark* at the end of the sentence but realised it could be confused with 4-factorial.)

Incidentally, I recall from the book that the monolith was not merely 3-dimensional, so the sequence continued.

*Or "slipbanger" as they are called in Australia.
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