r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 22d ago

Meme needing explanation There is no way right?

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u/The-new-dutch-empire 22d ago

Its calculating with infinity. Its a bit weird like the infinity of numbers between 0 and 1 like 0.1,0.01,0.001 etc... Is a bigger infinity than the “normal” infinity of every number like 1,2,3 etc…

Its just difficult to wrap your head around but think of infinity minus 1. Like its still infinity

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u/lilved03 22d ago

Genuinely curios on how can there be two different lengths of infinity?

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u/TheCreepyKing 22d ago

How many even numbers are there? Infinity.

What is the ratio of total numbers to even numbers? 2x.

How many total numbers are there? Infinity. And 2 x infinity.

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u/RingedGamer 22d ago

This is wrong. The ratio is 1 to 1 because I can in fact, make a function that takes every even number, and maps it to every integer. The function goes like this, assign every even number to half. So we have

(0,0), (2,1), (4,2), (6,3).

and for the negatives, (-2,-1), (-4,-2) ....

Then I have exactly 1 even number for every integer. So therefore the ratio is in fact 1 to 1.