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29 Jul 2024 00:35:18 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Math questions  
From: Warp
Date: 13 Jul 2013 16:16:35
Message: <51e1b5a2@news.povray.org>
Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I was under the impression that if you allow infinitely long decimal 
> expansions then all reals are representable.

The question would thus be: Can the set of real numbers be represented
with digits chosen from a finite set?

Or even: Does an infinite amount of digits (chosen from a finite set)
become uncountably infinite? Doesn't that go contrary to the notion of
countable sets?

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                                                          - Warp


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