Re: Another stab at Cantor


William Hughes wrote:

Either the limiting case is not countable, and we
don't care whether or not it contains all the reals,

From the very first response to the OP:

"...There is no justification for this assertion. What makes you think
that all binary strings are included in the process?

In fact, it is demonstrably false."

So it appears that someone cared.

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