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onraglanroadtoday at 5:43 PM1 replyview on HN

> No surjective function exists from definitions to real numbers.

I'm not really up on maths so this is possibly a stupid question, but can't any real number be written as an ASCII string, which is basically an integer number, so there is a direct mapping there?

Or is it because the ASCII number wouldn't be in order that makes the difference?

Or is it that you can't write that mapping as a mathematical function perhaps?


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onraglanroadtoday at 6:37 PM

Actually, and perhaps sadly, I asked an LLM and I understand now.

But perhaps that's not such a bad thing that I can get answers to my foolish questions!

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