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Re: URI denumerability

From: Anthony B. Coates <abcoates@TheOffice.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:56:26 +0100
Message-Id: <200208290958.FAA08325@tux.w3.org>
To: Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>
Cc: www-tag <www-tag@w3.org>

** Reply to message from Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com> on Wed, 28 Aug
2002 16:19:52 -0500

> The proof relies on the fact that the decimal representation of
> a real number can have an infinite number of digits.
> 
> So the set of URIs is not denumerable if you allow a URI to
> have an infinite number of characters in its representation.

No.  I did pure maths at Uni, and I can assure you that URIs are countable
(numerable), just as integers are.

	Cheers,
		Tony.
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MDDL Editor (Market Data Definition Language)
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