dimension of an infinite-dimensional Banach space is $\geq c $.

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Here $c$ means the cardinal number of the continuum.

This is an exercise (4.8.7) in the book of Avner Friedman, 'foundations of modern analysis'.

I am a little bit surprised.

Just consider the $l^2$ Hilbert space. It is well-known that it has a basis $\{e_n = (0,0,\ldots, 1, 0,\ldots )\}$, which is countable. As I understand, $l^2$ is a Banach space, a Hilbert space actually, whose dimension is countably infinite.

In which place am I wrong?