Re: [FWP] japhy had a silly idea...

[Marc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com>]

On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 10:57:17PM +0200, Abigail <abigail@foad.org> wrote:
> can match infinite strings as well. And since there is an obvious,
> 1-to-1 mapping between the set of reals between 0 and 1 and the set of
> strings (including the infite length strings) consisting of digits only,

actually, there isn't on obvious mapping (which is the problem with this
argument). the set of all strings is countable, the set of reals isn't.
there are a lot of examples out there that prove that the integers are
uncountable by extnding them with zeroes, for example.

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