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(Edited to try to answer the objection more clearly.) The intervals overlap heavily. Each of the intervals R_i contains infinitely many rational numbers, and all but finitely many …

Slogan: "rational numbers exist but do not take up space." This is in a measure-theoretic sense, so literally 100% (not just 99.5%). On the number line, the measure of an interval …

The other three items listed for Socrates are: * Knowledge of the universe does not affect our behavior. * We should pity the perpetrator of injustice, not the victim of injustice.…

The closest approximation I can find is pp. 292--293. (I don't have a copy and haven't read it in about twenty years, so there may be a better approximation available.) Hadden and …

Many libraries will purge checkout records once a patron returns books, but the increasing reliance on centralized cloud-based ILS vendors is making this harder to do reliably. I'd…

Yes. Diaconis, Holmes, and Montgomery demonstrate (but do not provide a full specification for) a coin-flipping machine which will yield heads 100%* of the time (as long as it star…

Yup, you never get to \omega that way. Cardinality is a coarser notion than "ordinality". So your example shows that Card(\omega * \omega) = Card(\omega) = \aleph_0, even though \o…

Thomas Pynchon's essay does a good job, I think, of explaining what the Luddites really fought against, and he does not, as this article seems to suggest, say a Luddite is "someone…

The pronunciation of PNG is provided in the spec: > This International Standard specifies a datastream and an associated file format, Portable Network Graphics (PNG, pronounced "pi…

According to the abstract at https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.1459 , this document has been revised many times (the current version, from 2015, is v38). Is there a particular reason that…

Here is some support for the claim that he sometimes used a capitalized version of his name. Quoting from http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/cummings/caps2.html : > As we may have me…

This puzzle game engine was written by Stephen Lavelle, who may be best known for Stephen's Sausage Roll. Here's Sokogoban, a cute recent game made with the engine: https://www.puz…

The article suggests using nonviolent communication to clarify which sort of support is needed: > Beyond that, ask for what you want, and check with your partner about what they wa…

Is this the paper you have in mind? * Daniel G. Boyce, Marlon R. Lewis & Boris Worm. Global phytoplankton decline over the past century. Nature 466, 591–596 (2010). https://www.nat…

I believe I found some references to an attempted bombing shortly after Rudolf Hess's death. * "Hess Death Sparks Neo-nazi Activity", Jewish Telegraphic Agency, August 24, 1987. ht…

https://nethack.org/v361/release.html

I didn't downvote — and talking about downvotes just invites more — but the faux-quote summary you provide in your comment is inaccurate. A more accurate summary, provided in the a…

The page being quoted points that out: > Of course, in reality none of this could ever happen. Sorry to break it to you. The truth is, the Pacific Ocean will boil off as the Sun be…

The link may be dead, but the site still exists. Here's the 1401-digit prime: https://primes.utm.edu/curios/page.php?number_id=953

CC0 is Creative Commons's license for dedication to the public domain: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

You make the paperclips with wire (and your own labor, to start). You start off with 1,000 inches of wire.

Maybe I'm missing something, but the NYT article says they were hauling rocks "to gather samples" (of "fossilized ash deposit" for analysis). The next paragraph explains that they …

The term "free-speech zone" is older than that. It goes back at least to 2004, and a similar concept under a different name ("protest zone") is even older. Example from 2004: https…

Is that https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/opinion/sunday/motherhood... by any chance?

> Phil. of mind and neuroscience has different subject of study, in most cases You may find the work of Patricia Churchland an interesting exception.