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Can you? There’s no “first real larger than 2”, for example, so if I define the definable reals as {0, 1, 2}, what is that first real? In general, you also can
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Can you? There’s no “first real larger than 2”, for example, so if I define the definable reals as {0, 1, 2}, what is that first real?
In general, you also can’t use Cantor’s diagonal argument on the list of definable reals because there are numbers in there that aren’t computable.
- zeroonetwothree 2y agoSee the “well ordering theorem”.