I read this discussion on point on one of my firend's blog. I subscribe to his views but see it in a different perspective.
Any and all points can be fixed point or a floating point.
Consider Case 1:
Our petite point is a fixed point.
The fixed point mathematics say that a point that makes f(x)=x is a fixed point. If this fixed point has dimensions and is pregnent with other points then this argument fails, as then the function will map to many points inside a single point and become a one to many mapping. Since the function f(x) is one-to-one function this cannot be true. Ideally it should not be a mapping, one-to-one or one-to-many or many-to-many as it doesn't map to a smallest unit but a space
consisting of this smallest unit!
Consider Case 2:
Our petite point is a floating point.
Well floating points are just a representation of the real world fixed point in digital world. So the same argument hold here too.
Q.E.D
I always loved to scribble Q.E.D. My Quite Easily Done attempt.
Saturday, May 13, 2006
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thanx for u'r support :)...as it turns out, there are more than 30 defns of a point http://www.answers.com/point&r=67
Guess we need as many proofs now!
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