On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:48:40PM +1100, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > On 3/6/07, Russell Standish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Bruno's answer is right, but not necessarily the easiest to > > understand. A very simple way of putting it is to consider sampling a > > random bitstream. Every time a bit is sampled, the Multiverse branches > > with the observed bit being 0 or 1 depending on your branch. If you > > were to continue for an infinite amount of time, each observer will > > have observed a real number. However after any finite amount of time, > > all the observers have are rational approximations to real numbers. > > > Is that saying a real number has a contable infinity of decimal places? > > Stathis Papaioannou >
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