Uncountable

Definition. A set is uncountable if it is not countable: no single list can contain every element at a finite position.

Uncountability proofs go through Diagonalization; the canonical uncountable set is the infinite binary sequences (Lecture 2, Example 4). Being infinite is not enough: the integers and rationals are infinite and countable.

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