Re: abundance of irrationals!)

Matt Gutting <tchrmatt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

> > Right. But neither 0 not 1 are part of the list.
> >
> As implied above, this is not the point. By the way sequences and infinite
> series are defined, the infinite sum SUM(i=1 to infinity) f(i) could simply
> be regarded as another way of writing "1", just as "2+2" is another way
> of writing "4".

It is unimportant whether there is this or another definition of a
limit. It does not matter for our sake. Each line of the Cantor list
is enumerated by a natural number. And the digits of the diagonal
fitting into these lines are all enumerated and do not constitue any
other limit.

Regards, WM
.

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