Subject: [SPAM]r::Rognes's conjecture Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 03:39:08 +0900 From: Norio IWASE To: Don Davis CC: mimura@math.okayama-u.ac.jp I heard the conjecture three - four years ago and I asked Mamoru Mimura about it. I supposed that the conjecture was denied a couple of years ago as Mamoru Mimura answered John Rognes after Toda answered Mimura. So the posting of Rognes sounds a bit odd to me. The answer to Rognes made by Mimura would be more informative for us. By the way, Japanese has two different counting systems: a) iti, ni, san, shi, go, roku, shiti, hati, ku, ju, ... b) hi, hu, mi, yo, itu, mu, nana, ya, koko, to, ... (less popular now) If I choose the system a), 4 must be `shi' which is not like epsilon. If I choose the system b), 1 must be `hi' which is not like eta. I know some people use the mixture of a) and b), but it does not sound very elegantly to me. The counting system a) is imported from chinese, and the original Japanese counting system is b). Regards, Norio IWASE -- On 2002.9.27, at 02:47 Japan, Don Davis wrote: > Subject: Re: answer and question > Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:39:35 -0500 > From: Ezra Getzler > > In partial support of Rognes's interesting conjecture on homotopy > groups > > of spheres, four in Japanese is yon (epsilon). Actually, it would be > better were epsilon replaced by upsilon. The next one would then be > gamma (five=go). > > Japanese has a complex system of counters: long thin objects are > counted > > by the suffix -hon (ippon, nihon, ...), small round objects by -ko, ... > I wonder what the counter for homotopy classes is. > > Ezra Getzler >