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

["Abigail" <abigail@foad.org>]

On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 12:25:26PM +1200, Jasvir Nagra wrote:
> 
> Okay. I said that the set of reals, [0,1) cannot be represented by a
> set of strings of finite length.  This means, I am saying there is no
> 1-1 mapping from [0,1) to the set of *finite* strings.

Well, that's fine, and I know that. That's why I mentioned
    
        INFINITE 

strings. Why you keep dragging finite strings into the argument, I
don't know. It's about as relevant as dog hair.

> This is Cantors Diagonal Argument.  Did I miss something?


Yes. The point.


Abigail

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