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    • silent_water [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      no shit. I'm saying you can't use an enumerable set to produce a mapping with the reals. the natural numbers are an infinite set yet are definitionally countable as they are the ordinals.

      disengage, you're arguing nonsense with someone with a literal degree in mathematics.

        • ella [any]MA
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          2 years ago

          Respect people's right to disengage

        • ella [any]MA
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          2 years ago

          Respect people’s right to disengage

        • silent_water [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          that's the conceit of the joke, the idea that you can use an enumerated list and map them to the reals. if you could do such a thing, you'd immediately fall prey to Cantor's diagonalization argument. the train tracks are a continuum. they can be mapped to the reals. a neverending list of people cannot.

            • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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              2 years ago

              The premise of the joke is incorrect because the joke thinks “infinity = infinity”.

              i fucking hate maths