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

[Jasvir Nagra <jas@cs.auckland.ac.nz>]

"Abigail" <abigail@foad.org> writes:
> > This is Cantors Diagonal Argument.  Did I miss something?
> 
> 
> Yes. The point.
> 
> 
> Abigail

"Abigail" <abigail@foad.org> writes:
> > Not quite.  The set of all reals|can't be represented as *finite*
>                                   |                         ------
>                                   |                           |
>                                   +---------------------------+
>  strings.  In particular, fr'instance, you can't represent pi as a
>  string of digits.
> 
> 
> Please prove this claim.
> 
> 
> Abigail

My apologies. Quite obviously my mistake.  From reading your reply to
rjk, it had seemed that's the claim you asked me to prove.

meeked
jas

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