Re: many (identical) universes

From: Selwyn St Leger <sstleger.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 11:39:39 GMT

> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 12:58:59 -0800
> From: Fred Chen <flipsu5.domain.name.hidden>
> To: Saj Malhi <sajm.domain.name.hidden>
> Cc: everything-list.domain.name.hidden
> Subject: Re: many (identical) universes

> Saj Malhi wrote:

> > 2. The infinity of even numbers is as large as the infinity of all real
> > numbers. Only different classes / types of infinity have been shown to be of
> > different size.
> >
>
> Hmmm...I would have thought the set of even numbers is much smaller than the set
> of reals, because between any two even numbers, you have infinitely more reals.
>
> Fred

Surely the even mumbers are a sub-set of the integers and thus of a
lower order of infinity than the reals?

Selwyn St Leger
Received on Mon Feb 14 2000 - 03:41:33 PST