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单词 TheCartesianProductOfAFiniteNumberOfCountableSetsIsCountable
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the Cartesian product of a finite number of countable sets is countable


Theorem 1

The Cartesian product of a finite number of countable sets is countableMathworldPlanetmath.

Proof:Let A1,A2,,An be countable sets and letS=A1×A2××An.Since each Ai is countable, there exists an injective functionfi:Ai.The function h:S defined by

h(a1,a2,an)=i=1npifi(ai)

where pi is the ith primeis, by the fundamental theorem of arithmeticMathworldPlanetmath, a bijection betweenS and a subset of and therefore S is also countable.

Note that this result does not (in general) extend to theCartesian product of a countably infiniteMathworldPlanetmath collectionMathworldPlanetmath of countablesets. If such a collection contains more than a finite number of setswith at least two elements, then Cantor’s diagonal argument can beused to show that the productPlanetmathPlanetmath is not countable.

For example, given B={0,1}, the set F=B×B× consists of all countably infinite sequencesMathworldPlanetmath of zeros and ones.Each element of F can be viewed as a binary fraction and cantherefore be mapped to a uniquereal number in [0,1) and [0,1) is, of course, not countable.

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