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#1 Re: Euler Avenue » More real numbers that natural numbers? » 2014-01-13 17:28:49

Happened to come across this old thread via a google search. Anyways, we were asked to prove this for a homework assignment. Obviously Cantor's proof is elegant and so it is widely used. For my proof, I constructed a 1-to-1 mapping with the natural numbers mapping to their reciprocal. Then I merely pointed out a real number in that interval (I used 2/3).

Does this properly prove that there are more reals than natural numbers or am I missing something?

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