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RE: Are there more points on a line or in a square? - Intresting bits of mathematics - week -2

in #mathematics7 years ago (edited)

One of the main points about what I was writing was sort of to get across how unintuitive it is. The set I wrote at the end sort of generalises to higher dimensions so if you let ql_e00b3d4c49d50baeabd1a772b1d5b035_l3.png be the first n prime numers just to avoid factors and perfect squares and consider the set
ql_08c5bf73830004f44f2d514cadaa165b_l3.png
then you have lots of functions going between -1 and 1 that are always out of phase as proved above with the irrational number bit, so they will produce every combination of n numbers between -1 and 1 and hence cover any n dimensional square/cube/ whatever you call it in higher dimensions. This is a mapping from the real numbers to that square. If you can't read the maths then try downloading the image