单词 | Plutarch Numbers |
释义 | Plutarch NumbersIn Moralia, the Greek biographer and philosopher Plutarch states ``Chrysippus says that the number of compoundpropositions that can be made from only ten simple propositions exceeds a million. (Hipparchus, to be sure, refuted this byshowing that on the affirmative side there are 103,049 compound statements, and on the negative side 310,952.)'' These numbersare known as the Plutarch numbers. 103,049 can be interpreted as the number
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