> Pardon a semi-educated question, but is this a recent
>discovery/interpretation? When I learned about the mathematics of
>infinities (via PBS/Nova :) in the 80s, one of the specific examples
>given was that there were as many counting numbers as rational
>numbers, and that the set of rational numbers had as many members
>as the set of counting numbers.
Yup, you and Kieran are right. Iwas thinking of transcendental
numbers (like pi, e, etc.).
That is what I get for typing too fast. Still, it was fun to work it
out!
-Midair
From: "Charles J. Cohen" <charles@eecs.umich.edu>
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