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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/memes
 

I considered deleting the post, but this seems more cowardly than just admitting I was wrong. But TIL something!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

If you're responding to the part about countable infinity and uncountable infinity, it's a bit of a misnomer, but it is the proper term.

Countably infinite is when you can pick any number in the set and know what comes next.

Uncountably infinite is when it's physically impossible to do that, such as with a set of all irrational numbers. You can pick any number you want, but it's impossible to count what came before or after it because you could just make the decimal even more precise, infinitely.

The bizarre thing about this property is that even if you paired every number in a uncountably infinite set (such as a set of all irrational numbers) with a countably infinite set (such as a set of all natural numbers) then no matter how you paired them, you would always find a number from the uncountably infinite set you forgot. Infinitely many in fact.

It's often demonstrated by drawing up a chart of all rational numbers, and pairing each with an irrational number. Even if you did it perfectly, you could change the first digit of the irrational number paired with one, change the second digit of the irrational number paired with two, and so on. Once you were done, you'd put all the new digits together in order, and now you have a new number that appears nowhere on your infinite list.
It'll be at least one digit off from every single number you have, because you just went through and changed those digits.

Because of that property, uncountably infinite sets are often said to be larger than countably infinite sets. I suppose depending on your definition that's true, but I think of it as just a different type of infinity.

[–] PotatoKat 0 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Sure if you're talking about a concept like money, but we're talking about dollar bills and 100 dollar bills, physical objects. And if you're talking about physical objects you have to consider material reality, if you're choosing one or the other the 100 dollar bills are more convinient. Therefore they have more utility, which makes them have a higher value.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah. We're taking the singles and hitting up the strip club boiii.

[–] PotatoKat 2 points 1 year ago

Only valid retort

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