Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2014/ia/paper-4/7e/i/solution

Let be the set of infinite binary sequences. Suppose it were countable and list all its members as , writing for the th entry of row . A finite listing could be repeated to make such a list as well. Define the binary sequence by . It differs from the th row in coordinate , for every . Thus it belongs to but is missing from the list, a contradiction. The set is uncountable, by Cantor's diagonal argument.

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