Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, Seventh Edition

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Chapter 2 - Section 2.5 - Cardinality of Sets - Exercises - Page 177: 26

Answer

We will use the fact that every rational number is of the form $\frac{a}{b}$ where $A$ and $B$ are integers Take the list of characters to be {${0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,/,-}$} every integer in the standard numeral system. Then every rational number is labeled with a finite string of characters from our list of characters the character(Put the $/$ to distinguish the two integers and the character if the number is negative). Then we have satisfied the condition of exercise 25. Hence we have a result.

Work Step by Step

We will use the fact that every rational number is of the form $\frac{a}{b}$ where $A$ and $B$ are integers Take the list of characters to be {${0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,/,-}$} every integer in the standard numeral system. Then every rational number is labeled with a finite string of characters from our list of characters the character(Put the $/$ to distinguish the two integers and the character if the number is negative). Then we have satisfied the condition of exercise 25. Hence we have a result.
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