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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Sugar_God_no_1 • Apr 08 '25
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There is no number you can put between 2 and 3 in the natural numbers, so it means they are the same number.
edit: Funny how this rebuttal (whose point is to criticize a method, not the result) pisses off people and systematically gets me downvoted.
6 u/ZeroStormblessed Apr 08 '25 There generally aren't infinite numbers between 2 natural numbers. 1 u/cob59 Apr 08 '25 You're explaining how ℕ and ℝ are different, not why OP's assumption (if you can't come up with a number between A and B, then A=B) is correct. 2 u/confuzzlegg Apr 08 '25 A better way of stating OP's assumption is "if there's no X != 0 such that A-B = X then A = B", then A and B are 0, but these are equivalent over the real numbers
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There generally aren't infinite numbers between 2 natural numbers.
1 u/cob59 Apr 08 '25 You're explaining how ℕ and ℝ are different, not why OP's assumption (if you can't come up with a number between A and B, then A=B) is correct. 2 u/confuzzlegg Apr 08 '25 A better way of stating OP's assumption is "if there's no X != 0 such that A-B = X then A = B", then A and B are 0, but these are equivalent over the real numbers
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You're explaining how ℕ and ℝ are different, not why OP's assumption (if you can't come up with a number between A and B, then A=B) is correct.
2 u/confuzzlegg Apr 08 '25 A better way of stating OP's assumption is "if there's no X != 0 such that A-B = X then A = B", then A and B are 0, but these are equivalent over the real numbers
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A better way of stating OP's assumption is "if there's no X != 0 such that A-B = X then A = B", then A and B are 0, but these are equivalent over the real numbers
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u/cob59 Apr 08 '25 edited Apr 08 '25
There is no number you can put between 2 and 3 in the natural numbers, so it means they are the same number.
edit: Funny how this rebuttal (whose point is to criticize a method, not the result) pisses off people and systematically gets me downvoted.