Uncountably infinite
In mathematics, a set which is not countable is called uncountable. All uncountable sets are infinite.
The best known example of an uncountable set is the set  of all real numbers; Cantor's diagonal argument shows that this set is uncountable. The diagonalization proof technique can also be used to show that several other sets are uncountable as well, for instance the set of all infinite sequences of natural numbers (and even the set of all infinite sequences consisting only of zeros and ones) and the set of all subsets of natural numbers.
Not all uncountable sets have the same size; the sizes of infinite sets are analyzed with the theory of cardinal numbers.
The statement that is the smallest uncountable set (in the sense that its cardinal number is the smallest uncountable cardinal number) is the continuum hypothesis; this hypothesis is independent from the ordinary axioms of set theory.
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