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

  • Asifall@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    But clearly, if we add up all the infinite fractions between 0 and 1, they would add up to 1.

    Um no? 3/4 + 5/6 > 1

    If you mean the series 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + … that also tends to infinity

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      10 months ago

      I meant to say that we can infinitely divide the numbers between 0 and 1 and then match each with an integer. But I realized that the former wouldn’t be rational numbers, they would be real numbers.

      That aside, I see now that the original idea behind the meme was mistaken.