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		seanhunter 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is mathematics mostly chaos or mostly order? That is not true. Algebraic numbers for example are an uncountably infinite subset of the real numbers that can be precisely individually identified.

cyborgx7 7 months ago [–]

According to Wikipedia, there are countably many algebraic numbers, and that makes intuitive sense to me as well. Do you have a source that the set of algebraic numbers is uncountable?

seanhunter 7 months ago | [–]

I am probably wrong

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