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- From: gjm11@cus.cam.ac.uk (G.J. McCaughan)
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- Subject: Re: Assorted questions and problems
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- Date: 10 Nov 92 00:37:02 GMT
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- In article <96778@netnews.upenn.edu>, weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
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- > Of course not. It's almost embarrassing to mention the counterexamples,
- > but here goes: (0,1) and [0,1]. The question you meant to ask, I assume,
- > was if the orderings were dense. In that case, a back and forth argument
- > shows the two are isomorphic. I'm pretty certain you need CH for this--I
- > think Shelah has the contrary model.
-
- Er, orderings being dense isn't enough. Consider R and R without irrationals
- between 0 and 1. Both dense, but the latter has two things with only a countable
- amount of stuff between them. I suspect that the usual back-and-forth thing will
- work if any two points have continuum-many points between them, though.
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- Gareth McCaughan Dept. of Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics,
- gjm11@cus.cam.ac.uk Cambridge University, England. [Research student]
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