TITLE: Are known transcendental numbers countable?
QUESTION [10 upvotes]: Do all known algorithms that generate infinitely many transcendental numbers like Gelfond-Schneider or Liouville only generate countably many?  If uncountably many, is this set of measure zero?

REPLY [3 votes]: Here's a "method" to generate all transcendental numbers in the interval $(0,1)$.  Of course such a thing can't be an actual algorithm, it must involve countably many arbitrary choices.  Let
$\{a_n\}_{n=1}^\infty$ be a sequence that runs through all algebraic numbers in $(0,1)$ (such things are easy enough to generate explicitly, but for brevity I'll just assume it's given).  For each $n$ choose a positive integer $m_n$ such that $m_{n+1} > m_n$.  Now take any sequence of positive integers $b_n$ with the restriction that if $m_j = n$ for some $j$ and the simple continued fraction representation of $a_j$ is 
$1/(c_1 + 1/(c_2 + \ldots ))$ (with at least $n$ elements), the n-tuples $[c_1, \ldots, c_n]$ and $[b_1, \ldots, b_n]$ are different.  Thus there is at most one possible excluded value for each $b_n$.
Finally, take $x$ to be the number with continued fraction representation $1/(b_1 + 1/(b_2 + \ldots)$.  It is easy to see that $x$ will be a transcendental number in $(0,1)$ and that any such $x$ can be generated for an appropriate choice of the sequences $m_n$ and $b_n$.