I thought that the correct answer to these was making a loop on the right, merging the lines.
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Top case is not the smallest infinite; going for prime number would save a lot of time for a lot of people before they die
The set of all primes is the same size infinity as the set of all positive integers because you could create a way to map one to the other aka you can count to the nth prime. Reals are different in that there are an infinite number of real between any two reals which means there's no possible way to map them.
The set of primes and the set of integers have the same size, you can map a prime to every integer.
depends on what you mean by "smallest"
This hypothetical post is a thought crime!
Is there a way to take both routes?
Hit the hand brake and drift that sucker.
with my knack for drifting i'll miss both and hit something else entirely even within this imaginary scenario
Multilane drifting!
Actually... this means there are infinite people so:
Let X be the number of people killed = (-infinity)
As infity is defined :
infinity + X = infinity
infinity + (-infinity) =
infinity - infinity = infinty
So no people would have died black guy pointing at his head meme
Desnt work when they're different classes of infinity.
Good to know there are roughly 6 real numbers for every integer
If there are child real numbers then you can fit more.
The first one, because people will die at a slower rate.
The second one, because the density will cause the trolley to slow down sooner, versus the first one where it will be able to pick up speed again between each person. Also, more time to save people down the rail with my handy rope cutting knife.
i asked myself: wwjd? and now i ask you because i have no idea
I think it was numberphile, or maybe vsauce, who did a video on infinities. It was really interesting. I learnt a lot, then forgot it all.
Ah yes, I remember my eyes glazing over as things got too complicated to fit through my thick skull
An infinite amount of people on the track implies that the track is infinitely long. If that is not the case and the track is a normal length then the sudden addition of all that bio-mass in a finite space will cause a gravitational collapse. But will the collapse start on the first track or the second? Either way I hope you saved your game because you might lose your progress.
The mass of dead bodies is what replenishes the new living ones on the finite track.
The infamious theory of infinitly-expanding train track in porportion with train-travelled distence sequared by prof. buttnugget
Q.E.D.
First, I start moving people to hotel rooms...
I mean, the bottom. The trolley simply would stop, get gunked up by all the guts and the sheer amount of bodies so close together. Checkmate tolley.
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