Sujet : Re: Does the number of nines increase?
De : chris.m.thomasson.1 (at) *nospam* gmail.com (Chris M. Thomasson)
Groupes : sci.mathDate : 09. Jul 2024, 22:34:04
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On 7/9/2024 2:07 PM, Moebius wrote:
Am 09.07.2024 um 22:10 schrieb Chris M. Thomasson:
On 7/9/2024 3:11 AM, FromTheRafters wrote:
Does that mean there are as many rationals as there are reals?
I already told you that: The set of rational numbers is countable infinite while the set of real numbers is _uncountable_.
Again: One of my math professors once tried to express this state of affairs the following way: "There are (in a certain sense) much more real numbers than rational numbers."
Strange that any real can be represented by a rational up to infinite precision...
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