Re: Cantor Diagonal Proof

On 11/04/2025 16:43, wij wrote:

others may even imply I claim 1/3 is irrational

To be more precise, you appear to be claiming that the numerical decimal representation 0.3r represents an irrational number. I separate the number from its representation because you appear to acknowledge that the same number can be represented as 0.1 in ternary notation, which presumably acknowledge as rational.
So what we have is nothing more than a terminology dispute. The rest of the world accepts that 0.3r exactly represents 1/3, and wij doesn't.
Fine. So you disagree with the entire mathematical world. No problem. Have fun with that.
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