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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: More complex numbers than reals?
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2024 18:30:36 +0100
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WM <wolfgang.mueckenheim@tha.de> writes:

> Le 09/07/2024 � 14:37, Ben Bacarisse a �crit :
>
>> A mathematician, to whom this is a whole new topic, would start by
>> asking you what you mean by "more".  Without that, they could not
>> possibly answer you.
>
> Good mathematicians could.
>
>>  So, what do you mean by "more" when applied to
>> sets like C and R?
>
> Proper subsets have less elements than their supersets.

Let's see if Chris is using that definition.  I think he's cleverer than
you so he will probably want to be able to say that {1,2,3} has "more"
elements than {4,5}.

-- 
Ben.