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Re:Indescribable numbers: The theorem that made me fall in l... by svantana on Saturday July 06, 2013 @01:37PM (#5999436)
The most incredible thing in this article is the assertion that there exists at least one math professor that is unaware of this theorem - I was taught all of this in the first algebra course at university...
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Re:Indescribable numbers: The theorem that made me fall in l... by mtp0101 on Saturday July 06, 2013 @05:33PM (#6000150)
Yeah... I mean, am I the only one that thinks this article is kind of trite? Uncountability isn't a completely mind blowing concept to me.
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Re:Indescribable numbers: The theorem that made me fall in l... by cool-RR on Saturday July 06, 2013 @07:06PM (#6000368)
I think that both you and svantana are talking about countability, which is not the point of this post but just a tool used to prove the theorem of indescribable numbers.
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