How An Infinite Hotel Ran Out Of Room
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Published 2021-05-10
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References: Ewald, W., & Sieg, W. (2013). David Hilbert's Lectures on the Foundations of Arithmetic and Logic 1917-1933. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. -- ve42.co/Ewald2013
Gamow, G. (1988). One, two, three--infinity: facts and speculations of science. Courier Corporation. -- ve42.co/Gamow1947
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Animation by JD Pounds and Jonny Hyman
Thumbnail by Ivy Tello
Music by Jonny Hyman and from Epidemic Sound and E's Jammy Jams (Hotel Lavish - Radio Nights, Steps in Time - Golden Age Radio, What Now - Golden Age Radio, Book Bag - E's Jammy Jams, Arabian Sand - E's Jammy Jams, Firefly in a Fairytale - Gareth Coker)
Written By Derek Muller and Alex Kontorovich
Sound Design by Jonny Hyman
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All Comments (21)
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Dude, the people staying in that hotel must be pissed having to move so much.
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Hotel manager: "You want a room, sir? No problem. The last room at the end of the hall is still free. Just follow the hall and you'll get there. Eventually."
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"Hey,you need to move to the room 748374896246326423874,and the elevator is broken,sorry for it" "....."
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I like how he explained it in such an understandable way to shield my brain from realizing I actually understood nothing.
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"Imagine there's a hotel with infinite rooms..." Already lost me, buddy.
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Teacher: The test isn't that hard. The test:
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"Hey honey how was work?" "Rough day. An infinite number of infinite buses showed up."
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"Do you know my friend?" "Who?" "Abababababababababababababababababababababababa...."
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"All right, everyone, move to the room number that's twice your current room number." Guy at Room One Billion: "Ugh, fine..."
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“An infinite number of infinite busses.” - “Dear god.” “But now a big bus pulls up” - “No.”
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You think THAT'S bad? Let's assume 1% of the population is disagreeable. That means an infinite number of customers will refuse to leave their room and move to another one.
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I booked 1 night in the Hilbert Hotel and it was horrible! It was 10pm at night when I arrived and the receptionist asked me to move to room 13739 and the elevator is still broken as many comments mentioned here, plus a 30003 seater bus pulled up and the receptionist asked me to shift to room 43742 and I had no time to collect my stuff I brought to the hotel with me. The other guy who took my original room who was on the bus also took my stuff, INCLUDING my laptop. Even when I was sleeping, I was asked to SHIFT to double of my room number and was like "F********** this" and completely checked out at 1 in the morning instead of 12 noon which I promised to the receptionist. Bad hotel, don't go here. Would give 0 stars if there was even an option.
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People in the hotel “I literally just finished unpacking stop moving us to another room.”
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Finally, a job where I can use my PHD in math. A hotel manager.
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This is the best explanation of countable vs uncountable I have heard so far.
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Imagine disturbing an infinite amount of clients just to fit one more person in the hotel
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"I love you " "I love you more" "I love you times infinity!" Me: pulls out spreadsheet.
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My CS professor wasn’t able to explain the difference between countable and uncountable Infinity as well as you just had. Thank you for helping me understand that lesson 4 years later lol.
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Bro F’d my brain up and thought I wouldn’t notice💀💀
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I was going to make a joke about infinity, but I'll never hear the end of it.
