Re: Calculus XOR Probability

Tony Orlow wrote:
So, for infinite sets, you want to claim that size
is something OTHER than a number???


Brian Chandler wrote:
Well, the "size" of an unending sequence can't really be the last
number you shout (oh, or was it 'sing') from the ditty, can it, since
there isn't a last number.


Tony Orlow wrote:
Is that true of all infinite sets? Isn't "1" the last number chanted in the
ditty of reals in [0,1]?

I wonder what the second number chanted in that ditty is, the one you
chant right after you say "zero". Or the next to last number, just
before you chant "one".

But then that's why we say "uncountable" is not the same as
"countable".


Of course that's not the size, but if you count by Lil'uns, the last
Lil'un is the Big'unth one, and Big'un's the last index dittied.

Still working on that well-ordering of the reals, are you?

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