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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: More complex numbers than reals?
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2024 12:11:34 -0700
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On 7/9/2024 10:30 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> WM <wolfgang.mueckenheim@tha.de> writes:
> 
>> Le 09/07/2024 à 14:37, Ben Bacarisse a écrit :
>>
>>> 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}.
> 

I was just thinking that there seems to be "more" reals than natural 
numbers. Every natural number is a real, but not all reals are natural 
numbers.

So, wrt the complex. Well... Every complex number has a x, or real 
component. However, not every real has a y, or imaginary component...

Fair enough? Or still crap? ;^o