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Real-number pairing by separated digits (H:R2↪(0,1))

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Map each real into (0,1) by a fixed bijection, choose its canonical binary expansion, and alternate the two bit sequences as ternary digits 0 and 2. If two such outputs first differ at position k, the leading difference has size 2⋅3−k and the remaining tail has size at most 3−k, so they are unequal. This gives an explicit injection pairing two reals. Iteration encodes every fixed finite real tuple without invoking ambiguous decimal expansions.

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  • Finite modification of the identity on the real line
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