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9. Show that the set C N × a, b is countable by constructing a bijection between N and C.

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Consider the function by ​​​​​​, where is the ceiling function ( , , , ,... )

That is if n is odd and if n is even. Therefore we can restate the function as. Clearly f is a well defined function (unique image for every natural numbers) every element in C has unique pre-image. Hence f is a bijection between and C and thus C is countable.

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