Re: Strings, storage management, overloading

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From: Dik T. Winter
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 21:49

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In article <5wP7VkzEcsB@khms.westfalen.de> kai@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) writes:
 > > >Yeah, yeah. "Almost all" is, after all, mathematical slang for "all except
 > > >a finite number", and there is only a finite number of elements computer
 > > >integers or reals can have (except, maybe, LISP bignums :-)).
...
 > True, this should be a countable number. Anyway, that was only an aside  
 > :-)

And still wrong.  "All except a set of density 0" is correct.  The cardinality
of the set omitted is unimportant.
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