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The sets of real and complex numbers are denumerable

Published: 01 June 2005 Publication History

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This short article demonstrates that both the sets of real and complex numbers are actually denumerable, which means that those numeric sets, as well as the set of natural numbers, actually have the same cardinality, hence there exists a unique transfinite number.

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cover image ACM SIGACT News
ACM SIGACT News  Volume 36, Issue 2
June 2005
101 pages
ISSN:0163-5700
DOI:10.1145/1067309
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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 01 June 2005
Published in SIGACT Volume 36, Issue 2

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  1. cantor
  2. computability
  3. enumerability
  4. foundation of mathematics
  5. foundations of computer science
  6. halting problem
  7. mathematics
  8. number theory
  9. numbers and sets
  10. philosophy
  11. real
  12. transfinite

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