Day 103 of 365
April 13
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Mathematics The Infinite Hotel Paradox
Hilbert's Hotel paradox illustrates infinity's counterintuitive nature. A hotel with infinite rooms, all occupied, can still accommodate infinite new guests by moving everyone from room n to room 2n, freeing all odd-numbered rooms. This demonstrates that infinity plus infinity equals infinity, and some infinities are larger than others, challenging our intuition about mathematics.
💡 Did you know?
Mathematician David Hilbert used this to show infinity doesn't behave like normal numbers - addition rules break down!
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