CCC comments on Respond to what they probably meant - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanArmak 19 January 2015 09:22:43AM *  6 points [-]

There isn't. You can see this by considering the cardinality. The set of all (finite) sequences of digits in any finite alphabet (e.g. 0 to 9) is only countably large. So it can't map the irrational (real) numbers.

Comment author: CCC 19 January 2015 09:27:35AM 1 point [-]

That was quick. Thank you.