On 04/04/10 13:01, Patrick Maupin wrote: > On Apr 3, 9:24 pm, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this- > cybersource.com.au> wrote: >> To put it another way, even though there are an infinite number of >> rationals, they are vanishingly rare compared to the irrationals. If you >> could choose a random number from the real number line, it almost >> certainly would be irrational. > > Yet another correspondence between the set of numbers and the set of > people ;-)
Not really. The set of all irrational numbers is not enumerable (aleph-1) and thus uncountable, but the set of all irrational people is a countable finite set (even though it may be very difficult to enumerate them). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
