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lupireyesterday at 7:14 PM1 replyview on HN

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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littlestymaaryesterday at 8:29 PM

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