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Yes, one thing Cantor showed is that it is somehow meaningful to define numbers like infinity+1, where there are an ordered infinity of elements followed by one
by ubercow13 7y ago
Yes, one thing Cantor showed is that it is somehow meaningful to define numbers like infinity+1, where there are an ordered infinity of elements followed by one more element. Sets like this are called ordinals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_number
So you could, if you like, define 0.9...4 to be a bunch of digits indexed by the ordinal ω+1. However the thing you have now defined isn't really a representation of a real number any more, unless you just ignore all the bits after the ... I guess.
- cthalupa 7y agoHuh, interesting. Looks like I've got some more reading to do. Thank you!