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Any finite number of randomly chosen integers can be sorted in increasing order. The quantities invented for the proposed mapping do not share this property, an
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Any finite number of randomly chosen integers can be sorted in increasing order. The quantities invented for the proposed mapping do not share this property, and thus cannot possibly be integers.
- DangitBobby 5y agoAgain, you don't know how to compute the function which creates the mapping, so you don't know the results, so you don't know how to sort the results. I don't follow the logic which claims your inability to compute something is now an intrinsic property to the resulting set. I do understand that sortability is a property intrinsic to integers.
- alanbernstein 5y agoI think the point is that the example with irrational numbers guarantees that this mapping/sort can't be done.