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[–] sniggleboots@europe.pub 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

There are more reals than naturals, they do not match up 1 to 1, for exactly the reason you mentioned. Maybe you misread the meme?

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Yeah, but if you can line up the elements of a set as shown in the bottom track, then they're, at most, aleph 0.

[–] sniggleboots@europe.pub 2 points 1 hour ago

Ah I see why they worded it the way they did. I would argue that's just the limitation of the illustration, considering the text words the premise correctly, but fair!

[–] enbipanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 hours ago

I don't think we should take the visuals of the hypothetical shit post literally.

If they say there's one guy for every real number, let them

[–] saimen@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago

It's just an illustration... how else would you draw it?