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What does countably mean?

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Adverb
  1. In a countable manner; in a way that can be counted.
  2. (mathematics) In a way that can be put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.
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If a set is neither finite nor countably infinite, it is said to be uncountably infinite or simply uncountable.
There are uncountably many subsets of N, but since there are only countably many Turing machines, there can be only countably many decidable sets.
We build an uncountably categorical but not countably categorical theory whose only computably presentable model is the saturated one.
He showed that was computable, but since only countably many real numbers are computable, most real numbers are not computable.
A subset of X is I-sequentially compact if and only if it is sequentially countably compact in the ordinary sense.
One such is the free Boolean algebra on countably many generators, which is the only countable atomless Boolean algebra.

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