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Old 26-10-07, 01:44 PM
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Originally Posted by uwila
What about the person who had 2/69216 - surely that room was taken by the person with 26/9216?


Yup, this is the bizarre but correct answer.

The fact is that the number of rooms is countable, but the number of guests is not and is a much bigger number. It is even bigger than N squared (N is the biggest number in the sequence 1, 2,3,4,...)
This is quite amusing, only because there are people out there who understand this...

However, I have a question, how can N be the biggest number in the sequence 1,2,3,4....if N^2 is a possible number?
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