On 15 Jan., 20:13, Virgil <vir...@ligriv.com> wrote: > In article > <1f7d986b-5888-4e5b-af82-95b063480...@i1g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>, > > WM <mueck...@rz.fh-augsburg.de> wrote: > > > For most human purposes sufficiently close > > > approximations > > > are good enough > > > and other decimal approximations do not exist. > > So that in WMytheology only very special rationals can have decimal > representations at all and no irrationals have any. > > I think mytheology is rather an appropriate expression for the belief in digits after all digits at finite places. > > > But we can state: If parallels cross each other and irrationals have > > complete decimal expansions then Cantor is right. > > Note that, as stated, WM's claim allows Cantor to be right regardless.
Cantor is right in all instances where lines that always have the same distance d > 0 from each other have the distance 0.
