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

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[–] elrik@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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 points 10 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!