I may not be a mathematician but I can take care of my own bank-account via numerations of various sorts just fine — javra
df. x is countable iff (x is one-to-one with a natural number of x is one-to-one with the set of natural numbers).
As far as I can tell, that is different from the everyday sense, since the everyday sense would be that one can, at least in principle, finish counting all the items, but in the mathematical sense there is no requirement that such a finished count is made.
— TonesInDeepFreeze
No, not in my neck of the woods. The everyday sense would be that one could, in principle only, count an infinite series of elements/units/items for all of eternity yet to come and still never get to finish. — javra
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