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79: 1 2 3 (Counting)

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How to Count Real Numbers

Mathematically, there is no way to count all the decimal numbers. But that you can Oh, matically, because, you know, it's part of a set and therefore it or you can make itpart of a set. So for the first, so let's say this consider the first decimal, the first number - nine minus one. How about three? Nine minus three would be six. And then it doesn't matter what you write for the last number. Is this equal to any of the numbers above? No, it is not. Can you prove actually that it, that no matter how many, let's say we had an arbitrary number of numbers, a finite but arbitrary

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