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Yes, though "slightly expanded" is probably a misnomer too, in maybe a Lebesgue measure sense, since 100% of useful reals are transcendental.



Technically you can't compare two countable sets using the Lebesgue measure, because they will both have measure 0.

EDIT: You could instead say something like 'the useful reals are an infinite-degree field extension of the rationals'. (Although as I mentioned elsewhere it's actually impossible to define the useful reals.)




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