Sujet : Re: Does the number of nines increase?
De : FTR (at) *nospam* nomail.afraid.org (FromTheRafters)
Groupes : sci.mathDate : 04. Jul 2024, 21:01:37
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Chris M. Thomasson laid this down on his screen :
On 7/4/2024 9:58 AM, FromTheRafters wrote:
Peter Fairbrother formulated on Thursday :
On 25/06/2024 21:18, WM wrote:
Let the infinite sequence 0.999... be multiplied by 10. Does the number of nines grow?
Corollary-question: Does the number of nines grow when in 0.999 the decimal point is shifted by one or more position?
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Regards, WM
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A more interesting question; suppose a set containing an infinite number of 9's. Now copy that set and add a 2.
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Is the second set bigger than the first set?
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Peter Fairbrother
Lrf, pneqvanyvgl bar naq pneqvanyvgl gjb.
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Different set with an infinite number of elements. Their sizes are the same for infinity = infinity... :^)
Providing one infinite set and the other are both countable or both uncountable. If one set is size Aleph_zero and the other is 2^Aleph_zero then they are not the same size.
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