On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Levi Pearson <levipear...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyway, after a bit more research, I found that you can use the arctan
> and tan functions to map between R and any open interval within R,
> which does prove that Daniel was wrong and the two sets he mentioned
> were in fact the same size.  In fact, since 0..1 is a subset of 0..2,
> the elements map with the identify function, and you can map 0..2 back
> into 0..1 by dividing each element in the set by 2.  Easy!
>
> Now, if you want to know a set with a higher cardinality than R, I
> can't help you there.

Bad example aside, am I correct in thinking that there are different
infinities, some of which "have more things in them" (a higher
cardinality) than others?

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