Re: An uncountable countable set
- From: Virgil <virgil@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 23:02:29 -0600
In article <45287609@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Tony Orlow <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mike Kelly wrote:
They have to be infinitely close, so actually, they have an
infinitesimal segment between them. :)
And what the *** does "infinitely close" mean, anyway?
Less than any finite distance. Silly!
Zero is a finite distance, so it is TO who is being silly.
Besides which, infinitesimal segments, if they exist at all, are
infinitely bisectable.
.
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