Le 21-nov.-07, à 17:33, Torgny Tholerus a écrit :

>  What do you think of this "proof"?:
>
>  Let us have the bijection:
>
>  0 -------- {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,...}
>  1 -------- {1,0,0,0,0,0,0,...}
>  2 -------- {0,1,0,0,0,0,0,...}
>  3 -------- {1,1,0,0,0,0,0,...}
>  4 -------- {0,0,1,0,0,0,0,...}
>  5 -------- {1,0,1,0,0,0,0,...}
>  6 -------- {0,1,1,0,0,0,0,...}
>  7 -------- {1,1,1,0,0,0,0,...}
>  8 -------- {0,0,0,1,0,0,0,...}
>  ...
>  omega --- {1,1,1,1,1,1,1,...}
>
>  What do we get if we apply Cantor's Diagonal to this?


Note also that in general, we start from what we want to prove, and 
then do the math. Your idea of transfinite (ordinal) diagonalisation is 
cute though, but I have currently no idea where this could lead. BTW, 
it is also funny that such a transfinite idea is proposed by an 
ultrafinistist!

I guess you have seen that {(0,0,0,0,0,0,0,...), (1,0,0,0,0,0,0,...), 
... does clearly not enumerate the infinite sequences (you don't have 
to use the diagonal for showing that. It is also better to use 
parentheses instead of accolades, given that the binary sequences are 
ordered (notation detail).

Bruno

http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/

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