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[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

One person for every decimal isn't possible even with infinite people. That is the point I'm making.

[–] sniggleboots@europe.pub 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Neither is assigning a person to every natural number, so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make?

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

But you actually can assign a unique person to every number, you just need an infinite number of people. You literally mathematically can't do that for uncountable infinities.

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

Really? Isn't the point that when you assign a natural number to every real number you can always generate a "new" real number you haven't "counted" yet, meaning the set of real numbers is larger which is also is the point of the image.