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Re: Cantor Confusion

Subject: Re: Cantor Confusion
From: "Peter Webb"
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 00:05:31 +1000
Newsgroups: sci.math
"Poker Joker" <Poker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> "MoeBlee" <jazzmobe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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>> Like I said, you've not refuted the uncountability of the reals nor
>> Arturo's point to which you originally responded.
>
> I never tried to refute the uncountability of the reals.  Too bad
> you've never been able to understand that.
>

No, but you introduced a specious point that seemed to support this argument 
though.

You said that for any real x exists y such that x/y=0.

This statement is false, at least within standard arithmetic, as you point 
out.

Cantor is different in that the statement is true, and easily proved.




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