When You Think You've Outsmarted Infinity

When You Think You've Outsmarted Infinity
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Mathematical chaos in three acts! The presenter's flawed logic is peak mathematical comedy. Cantor's diagonal argument proves there are different sizes of infinity by showing you can't list all real numbers between 0 and 1. But our presenter thinks he's outsmarted a foundational theorem of set theory with a "gotcha" moment about 0.999... equaling 1 (which is actually true in rigorous math). It's like trying to disprove gravity by jumping and saying "see, I came back down, therefore Newton was wrong... or was he?" The smug facial progression makes it even better—nothing like confidently reinventing mathematics incorrectly!

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