Kooks

[fanf]

I note that the prolifically incompetent "mathematician" Eugene Terrell has recently submitted a couple of new Inernet-Drafts on the topic of being able to fit more than 128 bits of numbers into 32 bits of space. Go to http://www.watersprings.org/pub/id/index-t.html and look at draft-terrell-* ...

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[pjc50.livejournal.com]

Both of those rely on a wilful and systematic misunderstanding of zero. The Fermat namechecking one is a particularly fine example of kookery; he quotes pages upon pages of sensible maths, then finally makes a flying leap to the very last table where he miscounts the number of rows and tries to claim that 2^0 is different from 0^0.

[simont]

*blinks* Well, they are different; 2⁰ is defined and 0⁰ isn't!