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The Reals are in fact "countable"

lesolee
in Analysis and Calculus

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For 100 years we have been told that the reals form a larger infinity than the counting numbers, and that the reals are in fact "uncountable".

Here is the pattern required to enumerate the reals (that is to "prove" that they are countable).

continuum.pdf

I don't for a moment suggest that Cantor's method is at all sensible or correct. In fact it is the most unmathematical hand-waving you could imagine.

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