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28 Jul 2024 18:22:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Math questions  
From: Stephen
Date: 13 Jul 2013 10:29:54
Message: <51e16462$1@news.povray.org>
On 13/07/2013 2:50 PM, Warp wrote:
> 1) Does a unit square contain the same amount of points as a unit line?
> (We are talking about real numbers here.)

I would say no. They are different orders of infinity.
I recommend Rudy Rucker's fiction book White Light as a good entry to 
thinking about infinity. It is a bit strange but easier to read than 
Edwin Abbott Abbott's Flatland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Light_%28Rudy_Rucker_novel%29


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Regards
     Stephen


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