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- From: meachem@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Meach)
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- Subject: Re: quite unique
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 14:18:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.234008.26718@Princeton.EDU> mikulska@astro.princeton.edu (Margaret Mikulska) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov18.221451.14168@bcrka451.bnr.ca> nadeau@bcarh1ab.bnr.ca (Rheal Nadeau) writes:
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- >Complete rubbish and utter nonsense, not to mention total ignorance of
- >set theory. The cardinality of the set of integers is much smaller than
- >the cardinality of the set of real numbers. In set theory there is a
- >whole hierarchy of infinities; you very well can say that an infinite set
- >is larger than another infinite set, if "large" refers to the cardinality
- >of the sets, as it indeed does. If you can show that there are as many
- >real numbers as there are integers, we might as well throw out the whole
- >mathematics as we know it out of the window. I'm not holding my breath.
- >
- >I wonder what course your university notes are from ...
-
- I wonder what newsreader you have, that doesn't let you know that this has
- been followed up numerous times already. . . in a much more civil fashion!
-
- --jm
- [crankier than usual!] {{rjn}}
-
- >
- >-Margaret
- >mikulska@astro.princeton.edu
-