Re: URI denumerability

** 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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Received on Thursday, 29 August 2002 05:58:17 UTC