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How Many Numbers Exist? Infinity Proof Moves Math Closer to an Answer. | Quanta Magazine

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Jul 15, 2021
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Natalie Wolchover

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For 50 years, mathematicians have believed that the total number of real numbers is unknowable. A new proof suggests otherwise.

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Greg Egan @gregeganSF · Sep 5, 2022

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It’s a great article, but when you first mentioned it I thought “Hmm, wasn’t there something more recent in Quanta on exactly this topic?” And there was. So the plot has thickened since 2013!