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colordrops on Aug 3, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: How real are real numbers? (2004)

Isn't this just comparing two infinite wavefronts? Isn't there an infinite number of texts in French?

missblit on Aug 3, 2020 [–]

There are a countably infinite number of French sentences, but there are uncountably many reals.

So there exist reals that cannot be described in French.

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