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Re: fom - 01 - preface
Posted:
Dec 9, 2012 4:15 AM
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On 8 Dez., 23:42, Virgil <vir...@ligriv.com> wrote:
> In article
> > A question: Do you believe that there are more than countably many
> > finite words?
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> Only if words can be built from infinite alphabets.
Wrong. A word is always finite. All finite subsets of |N, for
instance, form a countably set. You are very uninformed!
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> > Do you believe that you can use infinite words (not finite
> > descriptions of infinite sequences).
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> If an infinite word can be finitely referenced, just as so many infinite
> decimals are finitely referenced, why not?
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> > Do you believe that you can put in order what you cannot distinguish?
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> Given any pair of decimal numerals, they can be correctly ordered in
> finite time. Which requires, among other things, distinguishing them.
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But how do you get any finite sequence of digits of the real number r?
You get it from a finite definition!
Regards, WM
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