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On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, John Cowan wrote: > 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. I wrote it wrong but you know what I mean, don't you? -- // if (!terrorist) // ignore (); // else collect_data ();