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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Actually, it can be demonstrated that there is one-to-one correspondence between the two sets. Mathematicians refer to both as “countable infinitives”.


25 posted on 02/20/2015 6:29:52 PM PST by kosciusko51 (Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
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To: kosciusko51

Countable infinitives. Stupid spell check...


26 posted on 02/20/2015 6:31:22 PM PST by kosciusko51 (Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
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To: kosciusko51
The set of all integers and the set of all rationals are countably infinite.

However, the set of all real numbers is uncountably infinite.

63 posted on 02/20/2015 8:19:58 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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