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Invent Yourself scripsit: > A bunch of sentences are countable but little can be deduced from that > number, as Jordan hopes to, because it's trivial to alter that number with > grammatical rearrangements. The number of strings is countable, and sentences are just a subset of strings. Countability does not have to do with any particular number; indeed, many infinite sets are countable, including the set of (finite) strings. -- John Cowan <jcowan@hidden.email> http://www.reutershealth.com I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_