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Re: What does (real) number mean?

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wij <wyniijj@gmail.com> writes:
> I just combined my number view into a file. Some issues might be interested:
> 1. Infinity
> 2. Real axis
> 3. 'cardinality' of ℝ is greater than ℵ1,ℵ2,ℵ3,...
> 4. Infinite series
> 5. 1=√1=√(-1)*(-1)=i*i=-1.
>
> Possible issues about 0.999...=1 (or lim(x->∞) 1/x=0) had been debated for
> years (both are wrong).
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/cscall/files/MisFiles/Infinity-zh.txt/download

That document is in Chinese, so it won't be useful to most people.

Why did you post this to comp.lang.c?  It has nothing to do with the C
programming language.

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What does (real) number mean? wij <wyniijj@gmail.com> - 2021-07-27 08:40 -0700
  Re: What does (real) number mean? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-07-27 10:52 -0700
    Re: What does (real) number mean? wij <wyniijj@gmail.com> - 2021-07-27 16:14 -0700
  Re: What does (real) number mean? "minf...@arcor.de" <minforth@arcor.de> - 2021-07-28 00:24 -0700
    Re: What does (real) number mean? wij <wyniijj@gmail.com> - 2021-07-29 03:00 -0700
      Re: What does (real) number mean? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2021-07-29 03:11 -0700
        Re: What does (real) number mean? wij <wyniijj@gmail.com> - 2021-07-29 09:21 -0700
          Re: What does (real) number mean? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-07-29 17:26 +0100
            Re: What does (real) number mean? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2021-07-29 17:37 -0400

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