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Re: P1788/M0014.01: NO

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Now that two people have objected to the sentence "The empty set may be represented by (NaN, NaN)", I feel I should say I am perfectly happy to remove it if many people favour that. 

However, as I wrote to Dominique,
> But that's only in a Note, so it's not normative. And it even says "may be represented", not "is represented". Aren't you being a bit strict?

John Pryce

On 31 May 2010, at 10:59, Dominique Lohez wrote:
> My vote is NO
> 
> My vote would be YES if the sentence
>      The empty set may be represented by (NaN, NaN)
> were removed
> 
> Rationales
> 
>    1)  There is no general agreement on that statement
> 
>     2) There are conceptual   ( Level 1 reasons )  to reject such a statement