[Aztlan] 13.0.0.0.0 meaning not = 0.0.0.0.0

[ECOLING at aol.com]

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Sid Hollander (quoted below) is correct in distinguishing A, B, C here.
I believe B. is true under a very specific interpretation of mathematical
equivalence, but both A. and C. are false
C is false since they never (?) wrote "0.0.0.0.0".
A. is therefore also impossible.   While there is some rephrasing of it
which would escape that problem, it would still plausibly be false
if the "13" carried a metaphoric meaning (such as ancient past) which 
would not be present in a "0.0.0.0.0" even if they had ever written that.

Best wishes,
Lloyd Anderson

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IS:
A. "13.0.0.0.0 in 3114 BC was treated as being equivalent to 0.0.0.0.0."

The same as:
B. "13.0.0.0.0 in 3114 BC is mathematically equivalent to 0.0.0.0.0."

or This:
C. "The Maya in 3414 BC would either write 13.0.0.0.0  OR  0.0.0.0.0."

I think JMJ's intentions would be clearer if he wrote B or C instead of A.


Sid Hollander
Merida, Yucatan

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Regarding JMJ's posting at 6:45 pm today Tuesday, 
he is just repeating himself,
and so I would only be repeating myself by replying.   
That line of discussion is clearly no longer useful.

Lloyd Anderson
Ecological Linguistics
PO Box 15156
Washington DC 20003
ecoling at aol.com
202-547-7683



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