- From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) <clbullar@ingr.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 16:13:00 -0500
- To: "'Roy T. Fielding'" <fielding@apache.org>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
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.
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