>>You're not going to learn anything or convince anybody of anything this way.
The tone of the original article is light mockery as well. That's why I am imitating it. I think the author is wrong, it's quite condescending for you to say "you are not going to learn". What about pointing the non-obvious step in the simple reasoning I gave?
>>The point of using the ring with the sqrt in it is to conveniently demonstrate that the FTA is non-obvious.
This is not a correct way to point something is non-obvious. I illustrated why already. It's just not a correct way of arguing.
>>Since it is only being used for demonstration, and not as part of a proof, faking ignorance of sqrts and imaginary numbers is not helpful to you.
It is. It points out why the argument made in the blog post is not correct way to argue something is non-obvious.
>>There are many things in mathematics where the subtleties only came out later; heck, that's basically the entire history of set theory. Sets are also trivial if you come at them with an attitude of artificial ignorance like that.
Some things in set theory are trivial, some aren't. I don't understand your point here. I am claiming FTA is obvious when it comes to natural numbers not that something similar to FTA on some other objects is obvious.
The tone of the original article is light mockery as well. That's why I am imitating it. I think the author is wrong, it's quite condescending for you to say "you are not going to learn". What about pointing the non-obvious step in the simple reasoning I gave?
>>The point of using the ring with the sqrt in it is to conveniently demonstrate that the FTA is non-obvious.
This is not a correct way to point something is non-obvious. I illustrated why already. It's just not a correct way of arguing.
>>Since it is only being used for demonstration, and not as part of a proof, faking ignorance of sqrts and imaginary numbers is not helpful to you.
It is. It points out why the argument made in the blog post is not correct way to argue something is non-obvious.
>>There are many things in mathematics where the subtleties only came out later; heck, that's basically the entire history of set theory. Sets are also trivial if you come at them with an attitude of artificial ignorance like that.
Some things in set theory are trivial, some aren't. I don't understand your point here. I am claiming FTA is obvious when it comes to natural numbers not that something similar to FTA on some other objects is obvious.