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cscurmudgeon on March 26, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Bad Trip to Infinity

"If you are counting a set that is larger than your count"

What does that mean?

nico on March 26, 2023 [–]

If you want to count 4 natural numbers, your count is going to be 4, but the set of natural numbers is infinite. The set is larger than the count.

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