(This question actually arose in some research on number theory.) I once learned that any countable dense subspace of any Euclidean space ℝ<sup>n</sup> is homeomorphic to the rationals ℚ. Now I wonder if something similar is true for the irrationals **J** := ℝ - ℚ (with the subspace topology from ℝ). Let **c** denote the cardinality of the continuum. >**I**. Is each cartesian power **J**<sup>n</sup> homeomorphic to **J** ? Also, how far can this be pushed? >**II**. Let X be a dense totally disconnected subspace of ℝ<sup>n</sup> such that every neighborhood of each point of X contains **c** points. Is X homeomorphic to **J** ? What about for such subspaces of fairly nice subspaces of ℝ<sup>n</sup> ? >**IIa**. Let X be any subspace of ℝ<sup>n</sup> as described in **II**., and let B denote any subspace of ℝ<sup>n</sup> homeomorphic to [the open unit ball in ℝ<sup>n</sup> union any subset of its boundary]. Then is X ∩ B homeomorphic to **J** ? And what about greater generality ? >**III**. Is there a simple set of conditions that describe exactly all spaces (or subspaces of ℝ<sup>n</sup>) that are homeomorphic to **J** ? What about **J**<sup>n</sup> ? (Perhaps the word *homogeneous* or *metric* needs to be included.) (I found nothing relevant via Google, in MathSciNet, or here on MathOverflow.)