Jan 12, 2011 · Just get an infinite number of monkeys (or a slightly smaller number of computers) and opening a publishing business. Make a million bucks and retire. But this rings false, especially since …

Nov 15, 2024 · 1 Can it be proven using the pigeonhole principle that if set A is an uncountable family of finite sets, it contains an uncountable subfamily all of whose elements have cardinality n? The idea is …

An infinite number? Kind of, because I can keep going around infinitely. However, I never actually give away that sweet. This is why people say that 1 / 0 "tends to" infinity - we can't really use infinity as a …

Dec 15, 2025 · Can a countable set contain uncountably many infinite subsets such that the intersection of any two such distinct subsets is finite?

Mar 28, 2023 · Imagine a sphere outline in an infinite void. If the area within the sphere outline is empty space, and the space outside is solid, it is a 3D shape of infinite volume, and since it continues …

Mar 8, 2018 · The Koch snowflake has finite area, but infinite perimeter, right? So if we make this snowflake have some thickness (like a cake or something), then it appears that you can fill it with …

In his book Analysis Vol. 1, author Terence Tao argues that while each natural number is finite, the set of natural numbers is infinite (though has not defined what infinite means yet). Using Peano...

Nov 28, 2018 · I am in need of examples of infinite groups such that all their respective elements are of finite order.

Jan 1, 2019 · I have the intuition that a circle whose radius is infinite is a straight line. Nonetheless, I don’t feel that what I’ve just stated is really scientific as it has some vagueness and lacks precisi...

You could just as easily argue that the sum of the distance is infinite so the distance will be infinitely far away. Both statements are paradoxes. But the concept of the limit of an infinite series being finite …