Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: wij Newsgroups: comp.theory Subject: Re: Cantor Diagonal Proof Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2025 15:49:58 +0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: <0daa769e733b8800d52dd3e7385c74b173f91ffe.camel@gmail.com> References: <7EKdnTIUz9UkpXL6nZ2dnZfqn_ednZ2d@brightview.co.uk> <45bb7521c3bb68fe5fd47d10ee93a03de17f8d47.camel@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2025 09:50:00 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ed44edb85b9ccc9a724188d6920c2cc1"; logging-data="516994"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Wz0/2o0Txi/SsucrTv/nV" User-Agent: Evolution 3.54.3 (3.54.3-1.fc41) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZawSZR2q7KPIf07uqop5QLGsB3U= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2267 On Sun, 2025-04-06 at 08:36 +0100, Richard Heathfield wrote: > On 06/04/2025 08:15, wij wrote: >=20 > >=20 > > Simply put, repeating decimals are irrational. >=20 > Simply put, an irrational number is one that can't be expressed=20 > as the ratio of two integers.=C2=A0 Prove it. (see the provided link first) > 0.3r can be expressed as 1/3.=C2=A0 Prove it. (see the provided link first) > Is=20 > it, then, your contention that 3 is not an integer, or that 1 is=20 > not an integer? >=20