Sunday, 11 September 2016

Does this number belong to the set of real numbers?



Suppose we build a number in this way:

we put the natural numbers one after the other. For example, for the first 5 numbers:
n1=1,n2=2,n3=3,n4=4,n5=5 we obtaine a new number N5=12345. For the first 20 numbers we have in the same way:
N20=1234567891011121314151617181920 and so on.
If we build a new number using all the natural numbers in this way, is this new element a real number? I suppose yes, because it seems to be uncountable, but I'm not sure. Can anyone suggest a proof? Thanks.


Answer



Every integer has a finite number of decimal digits, because it is a finite sum of 1 (or 1 for negative integers).



While real numbers can have infinitely decimal digits, those can only appear in the fractional part. Your construction, if so, is not a real number. It's an infinite string of digits.


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