Rational or irrational? With or without the fragment id? "Without getting technical, real numbers are all numbers that can be written as a possibly never repeating decimal fraction. For example, all rational numbers are real. Their decimal representations do repeat. Decimal fractions whose representation do not repeat are irrational. " http://www.math.utah.edu/~alfeld/math/numbers.html I'd say that any explanation that boils down to Cantor probably doesn't belong in there. len From: Roy T. Fielding [mailto:fielding@apache.org] Yes, that was wrong -- denumerable would mean they are equivalent to the set of natural numbers, not real numbers.Received on Wednesday, 28 August 2002 17:13:41 UTC
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