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Hilbert’s Hotel: Infinity != Infinity 1

Mark Pilgrim wrote up Hilbert’s Hotel an example of using a diagonal argument that uses the metaphor of an infinite hotel to discuss the difference between countable and uncountable infinite quantities (e.g. the fact that the Real numbers is a “bigger” infinity than the Natural numbers). Interesting reading.

One comment on “Hilbert’s Hotel: Infinity != Infinity

  1. Erin Dec 20,2003 11:13 am

    Hmmm…. That was confusing! LOL

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