Re: exportable crypto software

Ben Laurie (ben@algroup.co.uk)
Wed, 10 Jun 1998 17:03:09 +0100

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Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>
> > That's great - but I'm slightly confused. They don't say _which_
> > infinity. Is that aleph 0, aleph 1 or what? Once they've worked out that
> > detail, though, we can celebrate the maths revolution!
>
> Using their diagram it looks like infinity is slightly higher than 3.5e33
> years, which is rather bad news for people looking for proton decay (is
> anyone still actively looking these days?)

Hmmm ... so if this were aleph 1 it would make aleph 0 about 100. Now,
I'm pretty sure aleph 0 > 100 (proof: I can count to 101), so I guess it
must be aleph 0.

I'm slightly surprised no-one has told us to shut up, yet, but I will
now :-)

Cheers,

Ben.

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