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- Subject: Re: Is Card(R)=Card(R^2)?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.101624.324@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
- From: wft@math.canterbury.ac.nz (Bill Taylor)
- Date: 14 Aug 92 10:16:22 +1200
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- |> >I believe that there is even an everywhere-continuous
- |> >bijective mapping from the unit line to the unit square.
- |>
- |> No, there is not. The interval and the square are not homeomorphic.
- |> Such a continuous bijective map would be a homeomorphism,
- |> since the two spaces are compact Hausdorff spaces.
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- Interestingly though, there *is* a homeomorphism from the unit line to
- "most of" the unit square.
- i.e. so that the image in the unit square has measure arbitrarily close to 1 .
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