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[–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

For every integer, there are an infinite number of real numbers until the next integer. So you can't make a 1:1 correspondence. They're both infinite, but this shows that the reals are more infinite. (and yeah, as other people mentioned, it's the 1:1 correspondence, countability, that matters more than the infinite quantity of the real numbers)

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There are infinitely many rational numbers between any two integers (or any two rationals), yet the rationals are still countable, so this reasoning doesn't hold.

    The only simple intuition for the uncountability of the reals I know of is Cantor's diagonal argument.

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