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    • 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

    • ella [any]MA
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      2 years ago

      Respect people’s right to disengage