Re: two-symbol mathematics (was: Langauge Constets (was: NSM))

In a message dated 11/21/2007 8:06:29 PM Central Standard Time, 
lingua@TRSTN.NET writes:


> ¡No! You can express the entirity of mathematics with the digits 0 and 1:
> <http://web.archive.org/web/20070827140929/http://ling.ucsd.edu/~barker/Iota/
> >
> Then, of course, a grammar, which is extraordinarily simple in this case.
> (I hardly think anybody was thinking to have no rules to combine digits.)
> 
> enjoy,
> tristan
> 
> 
I agree that Jot and Iota have only two symbols, but their meaning is 
complex.  The meanings of "0" and "1" are not complex, and they cannot in and of 
themselves form the basis of all of mathematics.

If you relex either Jot or Iota with the bits, then sure, it works, but then 
you're using different meanings for the bits.

stevo   </HTML>