SCI.MATH - "You thought Infinity was BIG? .... this is SOOOO BIG you can't count them!"
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From: |-|ercules on 17 Jun 2010 02:25 "Actually, a key application of Cantor's work is that one can reasonably extend the intuitive notion of "counting" to cover collections that are too big to actually assign numerical sizes to." ~ Barb Knox A mathematician explains the intuitive notion of the missing box that contains the box numbers that don't contain their own box number, and the BIG Boxes in the even BIGGER room of boxes. IT'S SO BIG! ~ Barb Knox Herc -- "There are more things in Cantor's paradise, Horatio, than are dreamt of by your computers." ~ Barb Knox |