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  • Lodespawn@aussie.zone
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    12 days ago

    I may be missing something but why would 4 contain 4 when 3 doesn’t contain 3 and 2 doesn’t contain 2?

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      12 days ago

      Excellent question, the answer is you’ve now reached the end of my understanding of set theory

      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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        12 days ago

        I think you were off by one? I think the single circle is more like zero, then the top right is 1, bottom left is 2, bottom right is 3, and the whole thing is 4.

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          12 days ago

          Sometimes I think that after I die, I’m gonna confront whatever higher power type of consciousness that was in charge of this reality and I’m gonna ask “What the heck was the purpose of all that?”

          And the answer is gonna be, “It was actually an off by one error” and I feel like it’s gonna actually make sense at that point.