Owl [he/him] to urbanism • 2 个月前xkcd falls for "just one more lane"imagemessage-square25 fedilinkarrow-up1116file-text
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minus-squaredat_math [they/them]hexbear20·edit-22 个月前It's okay. The Real numbers are dense (within the real numbers), so no matter how many branches we make, we'll always have just as many real numbers jammed arbitrarily close together on all branches! link
minus-squareOwl [he/him]hexagonhexbear11·2 个月前But what if we add one branch for each subset of the set of all real numbers. link
minus-squaredat_math [they/them]hexbear12·2 个月前oops! all branches! Why can't I hold all these continuua?! link
It's okay. The Real numbers are dense (within the real numbers), so no matter how many branches we make, we'll always have just as many real numbers jammed arbitrarily close together on all branches!
But what if we add one branch for each subset of the set of all real numbers.
oops! all branches!
Why can't I hold all these continuua?!