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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