A question on modification of a list via a function invocation

[Rhodri James]

On 08/09/17 13:45, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Gregory Ewing<greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>  writes:
> [a random integer will on average have ]
>>                                              infinitely many
>> digits -- despite every actual integer only having finitely
>> many digits!
>    This is not possible because every integer has
>    a finite number of digits (in base 10).

Surely an infinitely large integer has an infinite number of digits?

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Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd