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An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar....

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    jon-nyc
    wrote on 30 Apr 2020, 22:30 last edited by jon-nyc
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    The first one orders a beer.
    The second one says 'I'll have half of what he ordered.'
    The third says 'and I'll have half of what he ordered', pointing to the second guy.
    The fourth says 'and I'l have half of what he ordered', pointing to the third.
    And so on.

    So the bartender pours two beers and says 'know your limits!'

    Only non-witches get due process.

    • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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      George K
      wrote on 30 Apr 2020, 22:35 last edited by
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      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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        Klaus
        wrote on 1 May 2020, 07:08 last edited by
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        An infinite but countable number of mathematicians occupy all beds in a hotel with infinite beds.

        Can they fit in another mathematician? Or even multiple? Or even infinite?

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        • K Klaus
          1 May 2020, 07:08

          An infinite but countable number of mathematicians occupy all beds in a hotel with infinite beds.

          Can they fit in another mathematician? Or even multiple? Or even infinite?

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          Axtremus
          wrote on 1 May 2020, 11:56 last edited by
          #4

          @Klaus said in An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar....:

          An infinite but countable number of COVID-19 stricken, severely symptomatic mathematicians occupy all ICU beds in a hospital with infinite ICU beds.

          Can they fit in another COVID-19 stricken, severely symptomatic mathematician? Or even multiple? Or even infinite?

          FIFY.

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          • K Klaus
            1 May 2020, 07:08

            An infinite but countable number of mathematicians occupy all beds in a hotel with infinite beds.

            Can they fit in another mathematician? Or even multiple? Or even infinite?

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            Doctor Phibes
            wrote on 1 May 2020, 13:24 last edited by
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            @Klaus said in An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar....:

            An infinite but countable number of mathematicians occupy all beds in a hotel with infinite beds.

            Can they fit in another mathematician? Or even multiple? Or even infinite?

            I suppose it would be too far fetched to consider the idea of a mathematician sharing a bed with somebody else.

            I was only joking

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              brenda
              wrote on 1 May 2020, 14:40 last edited by
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              Is that the point of the phrase 'mathematically impossible'?

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                Doctor Phibes
                wrote on 1 May 2020, 14:47 last edited by Doctor Phibes 5 Jan 2020, 14:48
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                I think the more accurate terminology is 'possible, but extremely improbable'.

                I was only joking

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                  Klaus
                  wrote on 1 May 2020, 15:53 last edited by
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                  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert's_paradox_of_the_Grand_Hotel

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