Re: Cantor's diagonal proof wrong?

From: Virgil (ITSnetNOTcom#virgil_at_COMCAST.com)
Date: 01/05/05 

Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 12:01:47 -0700

In article <1104925266.402853.82190@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
 mueckenh@rz.fh-augsburg.de wrote:

> Virgil wrote:
> > In article <1103618066.157797.12630@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
> > mueckenh@rz.fh-augsburg.de wrote:
> >
> > > Irrational numbers don't exist, because none of them can be
> > > represented.
> >
> > Then squares don't have diagonals?
>
> Of course, they do. (The situation is splendid, compared to Cantor's
> list of really excisting numbers, which is lacking more than 99 % of
> its lines.) But real squares have real diagonals. 40 digits are more
> than sufficient.
>
> Regards, WM

Not for squares in Eucliean geometry.

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