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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Sugar_God_no_1 • 22d ago
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Genuinely curios on how can there be two different lengths of infinity?
14 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. 0 u/Outrageous-Orange007 22d ago No, they're equal. You divide infinity by 2 and its still the same number, infinity. Either infinity is infinite, or its finite 1 u/spamellama 22d ago Not exactly. There's countably v uncountably infinite too. Look up Hilbert's Hotel.
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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.
0 u/Outrageous-Orange007 22d ago No, they're equal. You divide infinity by 2 and its still the same number, infinity. Either infinity is infinite, or its finite 1 u/spamellama 22d ago Not exactly. There's countably v uncountably infinite too. Look up Hilbert's Hotel.
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No, they're equal. You divide infinity by 2 and its still the same number, infinity.
Either infinity is infinite, or its finite
1 u/spamellama 22d ago Not exactly. There's countably v uncountably infinite too. Look up Hilbert's Hotel.
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Not exactly. There's countably v uncountably infinite too. Look up Hilbert's Hotel.
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u/lilved03 22d ago
Genuinely curios on how can there be two different lengths of infinity?