I considered deleting the post, but this seems more cowardly than just admitting I was wrong. But TIL something!

  • elrik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    11 months ago

    once the two sets have reached their value

    will weigh 100 times less

    there should be the same number bills in the sets

    The short answer is that none of these statements apply the way you think to infinite sets.

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
      2·
      11 months ago

      How would you even weigh an infinite number of dollar bills? You’d need an infinite number of assistants to load the dollar bills onto the scale for you, and months to actually do it!