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Re:Flaw of Averages (2002) by kk6mrp on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @03:37PM (#29800084)
How do you mean that not all subsets of an infinite set are finite, or in what cases would this be so?
Re:Flaw of Averages (2002) by feoren on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @04:06PM (#29800515)
Take all the even numbers. That's a subset of all whole numbers. Is it a finite set? Clearly not. Both are infinite; the population of even numbers is 50%. Sometimes infinity/infinity = 0.5.
Re:Flaw of Averages (2002) by jcranmer on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @04:04PM (#29800483)
The set of prime integers is a strict subset of the set of integers, and yet both are infinite (they have the same cardinality even--that is, they are the same size, in one sense of 'size').
Re:Flaw of Averages (2002) by xboxnolifes on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @04:03PM (#29800479)
Ex: {n ∈ R ∣ n is odd}