23:18:24
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¹ already known to the Jains of India (400 BC), tho.
but they made mistakes such as the number of points on a line |ℝ| and a plane |ℝ²| are not equal. (both are 2^ℵ₀.)

23:15:52
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actually, the number of natural, integer, and rational numbers are all the same.

that infinite number is called ℵ₀ (aleph zero) or ℶ₀ (beth zero).

Cantor (1874) proved that the number of reals is larger than that.¹
that is called 𝔠 = 2^ℵ₀ = ℶ₁ (beth one).

21:40:16
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the idea that having the same number is the same as having a 1-1 correspondence is called
• Hume's principle.¹

¹ neither Hume nor Galileo thought it applied to ♾, tho (unlike Cantor).

21:32:02
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have a look at this strange pic.
there's 2 circles.
a big one and a small one.

however, both circles consist of the same number of dots.
(there's a 1-1 correspondence.)
blog.wolframalpha.com/2010/09/

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21:16:42
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♾ is such a strange thing.
the whole and part can be the same size.¹
cf.
• Galileo's paradox.

¹ contrary to Euclid's 5th Common Notion (300 BC).
although some say that some CNs are by, e.g., Theon of Alexandria (4c).

13:53:59
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mathematically, the answer is A✔
they're the same.
(even tho evens are part of integers.)

this is bc one integer corresponds to one even.
1 ↦ 2
2 ↦ 4
3 ↦ 6
4 ↦ 8
5 ↦ 10

n ↦ 2n

09:44:10
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A) same bc they're infinite
B) infinity can't be compared
C) integers ofc bc evens are only half of them

09:42:35
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let me explain from scratch.

Q: which is greater,
• the number of all integers
• the number of all even numbers

both are infinite.
there's many ways to think abt it.