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Enumeration of an Infinite Countable Set

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Reason: Initial publication: an infinite subset of the natural numbers is enumerated by a strictly increasing sequence, and every countable set that is not finite is in bijection with the natural numbers. · 918 chars · 7 deps · depth 7

A subset of the natural numbers that is not finite is the set of terms of a strictly increasing sequence, which is a bijection onto it; consequently every countable set that is not finite is in bijection with the natural numbers.

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Let N\mathbb{N} be the set of natural numbers, with the order of that definition. A sequence in N\mathbb{N} is strictly increasing as defined there. The notions finite, countable and bijection are those of the indicated definitions.

1. (Subsets of the natural numbers) Let ANA\subseteq\mathbb{N} be a set that is not finite. Then there is a strictly increasing sequence (tk)kN(t_{k})_{k\in\mathbb{N}} in N\mathbb{N} such that the map ktkk\mapsto t_{k} is a bijection from N\mathbb{N} onto AA.

2. (Countable sets) Let XX be a countable set that is not finite. Then there is a bijection from N\mathbb{N} onto XX.

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