Re: My real opinion about real numbers

From: Arturo Magidin (magidin_at_math.berkeley.edu)
Date: 09/25/04 

Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 21:06:39 +0000 (UTC)

In article <opseuup2za3uk9lu@cs81133.pp.htv.fi>,
Keckman <keckman@welho.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 22:52:30 +0000 (UTC), Arturo Magidin
><magidin@math.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>> Again: your error is that the second list doesn't have "all numbers
>> not in the first list". You would need to show that this is possible
>> in the first place.
>
>It is very easy for me to do it possible in the first place, because you
>do it.

I'm sorry, but this little nonsequitur of yours is nonsense.

>You or anyother human being or computer come and tell me what numbers are
>not in first list.

Are you restricting yourself to the COMPUTABLE real numbers? If so,
Cantor's proof doesn't apply in the first place. Is this the source of
your errors and confusion? That you were thinking of one thing but
insist on saying something else? 

-- 
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"It's not denial. I'm just very selective about
 what I accept as reality."
    --- Calvin ("Calvin and Hobbes")
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Arturo Magidin
magidin@math.berkeley.edu

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