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Re:Is infinity an odd or even number? (2011) by rcme on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @10:31AM (#35788041)
It’s not because there are infinite decimals between every two decimal numbers. That applies to the rational numbers too, e.g. there are infinite rational numbers between 1/2 and 3/4. Rather, the real numbers are more dense in a way that makes them fundamentally larger than the integers / rational numbers. “Larger” means being able to pair up the two sets one by one so that each element of both sets is the member of a pair. No matter how you pair up the integers to the reals, you can prove that some real numbers will be unpaired.

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