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denumerable

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Meaning

  1. adjective Capable of being assigned a bijection to the natural numbers. Applied to sets which are not finite, but have a one-to-one mapping to the natural numbers.
    The empty set is not denumerable because it is finite; the rational numbers are, surprisingly, denumerable because every possible fraction can be assigned a natural number and vice versa.

Similar words

enumerable numerable countable calculable infinity uncountable countably infinite computable equinumerous finite

Often followed by

set infinity sets number and model sequence markov domain

Word family

denumerabilities denumerability denumerably

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