Re: infinity
- From: Robert Low <mtx014@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:32:10 +0100
Matt Gutting wrote:
Robert Low wrote:William Hughes wrote:But how would you ever go about eating them all?!Only if some of the kumquats were infinitely purple.You have just described the set natural numbers, an infinite set (bijection exists to a proper subset) that has only finite elements. There is nothing strange about this, why should the elements of an infinite set have to be infinite (couldn't we have an infinite set of purple kumquats)?
You just have to eat each one in half the time it took to eat the previous one. .
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