Re: how to list all of the real numbers

On Aug 2, 11:48 pm, Calvin <cri...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thus, amazingly enough, we can list ALL of these reals
at once, to any desired binary place, simply by working
on the tree, from left to right, row below row of nodes,
for a finite number of steps. And we can calculate that
number of steps.

Yes. "to any desired binary place", but 2^(1/2) has infinitely
many binary places. And which is its finite number of steps?

From Cantor we already know that the number of reals is 2^(Aleph0)
Your tree is the representation of that theorem.
Ludovicus

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