Owl [he/him] to urbanism • 2 months agoxkcd falls for "just one more lane"imagemessage-square25 fedilinkarrow-up1116file-text
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minus-squaredat_math [they/them]hexbear20·edit-22 months agoIt'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 months agoBut what if we add one branch for each subset of the set of all real numbers. link
minus-squaredat_math [they/them]hexbear12·2 months agooops! 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?!