[thechat] Cantor Diagonal - was Math was Religion was Life, the Universe an d Everything

deke web at master.gen.in.us
Fri May 25 07:42:08 CDT 2001


On 24 May 2001, at 16:12, Luther, Ron posted a message which said:

> Note 2 - I mistakenly referred to countably infinite as "aleph-not".  Doh!
> That should have been "aleph-naught"!  [It looks like a capital German
> script "X" with a subscript of zero.]

I think it's more commonly referred to as aleph-null in the US.
It's also called aleph-zero.

deke



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