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Re:A Bad Trip to Infinity by ouid on Saturday March 25, 2023 @11:34PM (#35310558)
this argument is very slightly wrong, because I could pick 1.0000... for all of my numbers, and then choose the diagonal .99999...
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Re:A Bad Trip to Infinity by kgwgk on Sunday March 26, 2023 @05:11AM (#35312545)
If the “map” goes to 1.0 only you don’t need the argument to deduce that not every real is represented.
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