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Why the domain of sequences has been chosen to be the set of natural numbers, and not for example the set of real numbers ?



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    I would say: it is more the other way around. If $f:Ito X$ is a function and $I$ is infinite and countable and equipped with a well-order then it can be looked at as a sequence.
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    There is also the notion of a "net" (basically a sequence with some arbitrary ordered set as domain).
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Why the domain of sequences has been chosen to be the set of natural numbers, and not for example the set of real numbers ?



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    I would say: it is more the other way around. If $f:Ito X$ is a function and $I$ is infinite and countable and equipped with a well-order then it can be looked at as a sequence.
    – drhab
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    There is also the notion of a "net" (basically a sequence with some arbitrary ordered set as domain).
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    I would say: it is more the other way around. If $f:Ito X$ is a function and $I$ is infinite and countable and equipped with a well-order then it can be looked at as a sequence.
    – drhab
    Sep 10 at 8:33







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    There is also the notion of a "net" (basically a sequence with some arbitrary ordered set as domain).
    – Janik
    Sep 10 at 8:36












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    I would say: it is more the other way around. If $f:Ito X$ is a function and $I$ is infinite and countable and equipped with a well-order then it can be looked at as a sequence.
    – drhab
    Sep 10 at 8:33







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    There is also the notion of a "net" (basically a sequence with some arbitrary ordered set as domain).
    – Janik
    Sep 10 at 8:36







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I would say: it is more the other way around. If $f:Ito X$ is a function and $I$ is infinite and countable and equipped with a well-order then it can be looked at as a sequence.
– drhab
Sep 10 at 8:33





I would say: it is more the other way around. If $f:Ito X$ is a function and $I$ is infinite and countable and equipped with a well-order then it can be looked at as a sequence.
– drhab
Sep 10 at 8:33





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There is also the notion of a "net" (basically a sequence with some arbitrary ordered set as domain).
– Janik
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There is also the notion of a "net" (basically a sequence with some arbitrary ordered set as domain).
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Sep 10 at 8:36










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The short answer is: because that's the way sequences are defined. But, in fact, the general concept of sequence is: a sequence is a function whose domain is an ordered set $(S,preccurlyeq)$ which, as an ordered set, is isomorphic to $(mathbbN,leqslant)$. So, the basic idea is that we can talk about the first element of the sequence, the second element of the sequence, and so on.






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    The name says it, in a sequence a term has a next term. In an uncountable universe, there are no next.






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      The short answer is: because that's the way sequences are defined. But, in fact, the general concept of sequence is: a sequence is a function whose domain is an ordered set $(S,preccurlyeq)$ which, as an ordered set, is isomorphic to $(mathbbN,leqslant)$. So, the basic idea is that we can talk about the first element of the sequence, the second element of the sequence, and so on.






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        The short answer is: because that's the way sequences are defined. But, in fact, the general concept of sequence is: a sequence is a function whose domain is an ordered set $(S,preccurlyeq)$ which, as an ordered set, is isomorphic to $(mathbbN,leqslant)$. So, the basic idea is that we can talk about the first element of the sequence, the second element of the sequence, and so on.






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          The short answer is: because that's the way sequences are defined. But, in fact, the general concept of sequence is: a sequence is a function whose domain is an ordered set $(S,preccurlyeq)$ which, as an ordered set, is isomorphic to $(mathbbN,leqslant)$. So, the basic idea is that we can talk about the first element of the sequence, the second element of the sequence, and so on.






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          The short answer is: because that's the way sequences are defined. But, in fact, the general concept of sequence is: a sequence is a function whose domain is an ordered set $(S,preccurlyeq)$ which, as an ordered set, is isomorphic to $(mathbbN,leqslant)$. So, the basic idea is that we can talk about the first element of the sequence, the second element of the sequence, and so on.







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              The name says it, in a sequence a term has a next term. In an uncountable universe, there are no next.






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                  The name says it, in a sequence a term has a next term. In an uncountable universe, there are no next.






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