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- From: clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke)
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- Subject: Re: Cardinality of sigma-rings
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.194154.10468@cs.ucf.edu>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 19:41:54 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.175055.13821@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul21.175055.13821@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>
- horn@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Jeffrey Horn) writes:
- > Is there a way to prove that no sigma ring can have the cardinality of the
- > natural numbers without referring to the Hausdorf maximality theorem?
-
- Had this as a homework once. I did a diagonal argument:
- list the elements of the sigma ring, then use the countable
- union/intersection property to get an element (i.e. set) not
- in the list. Details are a little vague now, but I recall
- it was pretty straightforward.
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