Comment on Jeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't exist
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 8 hours agoAlright, I concede. I did it wrong but still ended up with the right answer. There are other responses in this thread with correct explanation for why Asia has more coastline
BetterDev@programming.dev 6 hours ago
Yeah, if you use an arbitrary standardized measuring stick, the problem goes away, as it is no longer infinite.
Still a fun throught experiment to demonstrate how unintuitive infinities are!
Anyway, major kudos to you for engaging with this thread in good faith! Its so rare these days, I barely venture to comment anymore. Respect.
… and thank you for the opportunity to share a weird math fact!
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Hmm I’ve consulted a mathematician that I know, and they say thay cardinality isn’t really the same as “size”, but comparing the two infinite sets of the same cardinality is basically meaningless because even though one set is sorta kinda “bigger” than the other set