"Paul" <paul_at_test.com> wrote in message
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> I think the fundamental reason why rationals are so much easier is that
> they are countably infinite, whereas the irrationals are uncountable.
> (in a mathematical sense).
But in practice we deal only with a countable subset of all irrationals,
namely those which are represented by closed-form expressions, therefore
it's not quite intuitive why cardinality might matter.
Received on Tue Sep 14 2004 - 19:21:56 CDT
