- cross-posted to:
- memes@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- memes@lemmy.world
I considered deleting the post, but this seems more cowardly than just admitting I was wrong. But TIL something!
I considered deleting the post, but this seems more cowardly than just admitting I was wrong. But TIL something!
Try thinking of it like this: If I have an infinite amount of feathers, I can balance a scale that has any number of bowling balls on it. Even if there was an infinite number of bowling balls on the other side, I could still balance it because I also have infinite feathers that I can keep adding until it balances. I don’t need MORE than infinite feathers just because there’s infinite bowling balls. In the same way if my scale had every rational number on one side I could add enough even numbers to the other side to make it balance, but if I had all the irrational numbers on one side of the scale then I would never have enough rational numbers to make it balance out even though they are also infinite.