Re: Cantor's diagonal proof wrong?

From: fishfry (BLOCKSPAMfishfry_at_your-mailbox.com)
Date: 11/28/04 

Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 07:24:39 GMT

In article <3c6b9c1e.0411272122.2449a629@posting.google.com>,
 raf@tiki-lounge.com (Ross A. Finlayson) wrote:

> Hi Bob, if that is your real name,

It's not. Bob is a palindrome of his real name.

>
> It's an infinite set, there's always one more.
>
> Consider the natural/unit equivalency function.

A function you've been talking about for a couple of years, without
proving that it exists. And since your EF is a bijection from the
natural numbers to the reals, there's an easy proof that it doesn't
exist.

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