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Comment by lupire

12 hours ago

Right, but that's the opposite of what the Quanta article says. The article says that Cantor and Dedekind discovered infinity in bounded intervals. What they discovered (really, what they concocted) was uncountable infinity.

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littlestymaar  10 hours ago

Quanta messing things up isn't a particularly rare occurrence, unfortunately.

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