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From: Chip Eastham on 7 Jun 2010 09:44
On Jun 7, 7:56 am, William Hughes <wpihug...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 7, 3:55 am, "|-|ercules" <radgray...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I don't see your problem.
>
> Certainly it is easy to see that for many examples:
>    Given a bunch of boxes containing sets of beer
>    it is possible to find a set of beers that is not
>    contained in any of the boxes.
>
> From there the question is
>
>    Assume we can have an infinite number of boxes
>    and an infinite number of beers
>    Is it still possible to find a set of beers
>    that is not in any of the boxes.
>
> The answer is yes.
>
> So we conclude that it is not possible to have an
> infinite number of boxes that contains
> every set of beers.
>
>                          - William Hughes

AFAIK there are only finitely many different
kinds of beer (brands, etc.), but I'll defer
my criticism until we've all had time to try
them.

regards, chip
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