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[–] siriusmart@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Hint:

spoilerThe size of a set is the number of possible values that an element can take.


spoilersolution: https://gmtex.siri.sh/fs/1/School/Extra/Maths/Qotd%20solutions/2024-06-30_sizes-of-real-sets.html

[–] been_jamming@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think this question is very poorly worded

[–] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I read the digits as being part of a product operator

[–] been_jamming@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Sure, but what is d_\infty? What is the set \infty? What does the question mean by "every real number can be represented by"? There's nothing distinguishing d_1d_2... with d_1 times d_2 since we normally denote the product by writing the variables next to each other