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- From: idx009@cck.coventry.ac.uk (the Crisco Kid)
- Subject: Re: quite unique
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:52:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.221451.14168@bcrka451.bnr.ca> nadeau@bcarh1ab.bnr.ca (Rheal Nadeau) writes:
- >Wrong - there are not infinitely more real numbers than integers. If I
- >had my university notes, I could trot out the proof, but in the
- >meantime: there are infinite numbers of integers and of real numbers.
- >"Infinite" being an absolute term, you can't say that one infinite set
- >is larger than the other (and certainly not infinitely larger).
-
- Paaaa. There are more infinities in heaven and earth, Rheal, than are
- dreamed of in your philosophy. For a gentle and humorous introduction
- to infinities, try "Infinity and the Mind", by Rudy Rucker. Then
- tackle, perhaps, "On Numbers and Games" by John Conway. And certainly
- the cardinality of reals is greater than that of the integers. Cantor's
- diagonal proof shows this.
-
- These, of course, are mathematical infinities, not the Philosophical
- Infinity (referred to by Rucker as big-Omega). Big-Omega is by
- definition infinitely more infinite than any other infinity :)
-
- PS: please don't take this as a flame. I really enjoy your postings.
-
- Kay
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