Does f ( [ 0 , 1 ] ) must always contain an irrational number?
Wade Bullock
Answered
2022-07-03
Does must always contain an irrational number?
Answer & Explanation
Aryanna Caldwell
Expert
2022-07-04Added 11 answers
is uncountable, and so because is injective, so will . If did not contain an irrational number, then it would lie in , and so be countable. But that would give us a contradiction.
Because has the same cardinality as , there is in fact a bijection from onto .
rjawbreakerca
Expert
2022-07-05Added 5 answers
where is the fractional part of , though strictly speaking this is a bijection