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Re:Mathematicians Measure Infinities, Find They’re Equal by agf on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @12:30PM (#15239875)
No, this is incorrect. You can map the set of rational numbers to the set of natural numbers. The set of reals in that range is shown to be uncountably infinite by Cantor diagonalization.

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1r5aya/e...

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Re:Mathematicians Measure Infinities, Find They’re Equal by deckar01 on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @12:46PM (#15240052)
Ah, I was thinking of the rationals. Thanks for the ELI5 link.
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