Re: Countability of real numbers

Eckard Blumschein wrote:
On 11/16/2006 5:52 AM, Virgil wrote:
In article <455B4D30.4020701@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Eckard Blumschein <blumschein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 11/8/2006 7:28 AM, Virgil wrote:

To my mind calling "real" numbers "fictitious" is an oxymoron.

Such oddities happen not rarely. Real originally means the opposite of
imaginary. Ironically, the reals are likewise different from genuine
numbers.

Since every "genuine" number is fictitious, in every legitmate sense of
fictitious, to call the reals fictitious is equivalent to calling them
genuine.

You are deliberately denying the essence of what I wrote.

Virgil is only doing that because what you wrote is nonsense. He didn't
mean anything personal by it.

--
David Marcus
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