Re:How can some infinities be bigger than others?
by Dylan16807 on Thursday April 20, 2023 @02:18AM
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Does the axiom of choice let you repeatedly pick the same real numbers in the same order out of a set? Or do you need uncountably infinite storage to keep your list of indexes?
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Re:How can some infinities be bigger than others?
by contravariant on Thursday April 20, 2023 @07:29AM
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That's an interesting question, but kind of hard to answer. Programming is inherently constructive so approaching a non-constructive proof as a programming problem tends to be problematic.
I don't think you run into any problems if you let the axiom of choice pick the same numbers every time. It would be a bit problematic if you were to add that as an extra axiom (suddenly every proof let x,y in X then ... therefore x=y would become trivial).