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

[Piers Cawley <pdcawley@iterative-software.com>]

"Daniel S. Wilkerson" <dsw@digital-integrity.com> writes:

> "Piers Cawley (by way of owner-fwp@technofile.org)" wrote:
> 
> > You know, I'm pretty certain that the set of all strings is
> > uncountable, by Cantor's Diagonalization.
> 
> The set of all *countable* sequences from a finite alphabet is
> uncountable. The standard definition of the set of all strings is
> the set of all *finite* sequences from the alphabet. This is
> countable.

It's finite as well isn't it?

-- 
Piers Cawley
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