Rational
numbers have a
cardinality of
aleph null, as do the
integers and
natural numbers. this means that there must be a one-to-one
correspondence (above:
isomorphic) between any two of the three
sets.
Prove it to yourself with a very large sheet of graph paper:
1) write a 0 in the upper left corner square.
2) along the top (x-axis) and left side (y-axis), write the integers in increasing order.
3) in all the other squares, write the fraction made from the number directly up on the x-axis over the number directly over on the y-axis.
it's one quadrant of a graph, flipped upside-down. you just made an isomorphism. if you can do this with the
real numbers, you are probably
god.