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[โ€“] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Great explanation, I'd just like to add to this bit because I think it's fun and important

And you would continue to kill infinite people every time you reached a new whole number.

Or any new number at all. Between 0 and 0.0...01 there are already infinite people. And between 0.001 and 0.002.

[โ€“] bampop@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

That's still not doing it justice. If there were one person for every rational number there would be infinitely many in any finite interval (but still actually no more than the top track, go figure) but the real numbers are a whole other kind of infinite!