• bdonvrA
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    10 hours ago

    That article is not comprehensible to most people

    • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.ca
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      I am one of them. I still can’t get past the Hotel paradox. To me an infinite number of guests cancels out an infinite number of rooms.

      Infinite guests = infinite rooms Infinity + n = infinity To say the bus of unbound guests could just move into infinite rooms seems to give a property of rooms without limit that is not shared with the original infinite guests.

      The original premize states the hotel is full. Because the only thing that matches infinite rooms are infinite guests.

      Apparently I am very stupid. My sister was right all along.

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        Infinite hotel has infinity guests. You have all the guests move down 10 rooms. Rooms 1-10 are now free. Zero to Infinity and 11 to infinity are equally infinity, since numbers extend into infinity.

        In the same manner if you have one set of infinite guests occupy all the even numbered rooms, you will still have an infinite number of rooms open, because the set of all odd (and even) numbers extends infinitely. You could have the first set of infinite guests take each hundredth room (100, 200, 300, etc), then the next set take 99, 199, 299, etc. in that way you could fit 100 sets of infinite guests.

        It just illustrates that infinity is not an easily intuitable concept.

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        There are different “kinds” of infinity. For example, there is an infinite amount of natural numbers, and there is an infinite amount of real numbers. Still, natural numbers only make up a tiny part of real numbers, so while both are infinite, the set of real numbers is bigger. Hilbert’s Hotel is an analogy meant to convey how to deal with these different notions of infinity.

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          Not really. The guests move to a room with double the number, freeing up an infinite number of rooms.

          So the change is from natural numbers to even numbers, freeing up odd numbers. Those infinities are the same, but you can still do this because infinities are weird.