Gary Pajer <gary.pajer at gmail.com> wrote:
Don't we have better things to discuss, like revolution in Egypt or
basketball losing streaks?? Bye for now!
But to keep discussion within the realm of Maxima, I was intrigued with
Richard's earlier comment: "It depends on whether you believe in
negative numbers."
Richard: Do you really think it might be practical to disbelieve
negative numbers? That belief would obviously simplify and unclutter
huge swaths of the Maxima implementation. Indeed, it would also
simplify and unclutter huge swaths of mathematics itself, at least those
small parts of mathematics that would remain.
I need to think more deeply about this notion.