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by tokenadult 5880 days ago
The Wikipedia article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_paradox_of_the_Gran...

relates one method of numbering passengers on the buses to count them (which I found in another source,

http://faculty.cua.edu/glenn/187f09/hilbert_hotel.pdf

which I used to teach my elementary-age class last Saturday the same trick), which shows that countably infinite buses with countably infinite passengers in each bus can still be accommodated by Hilbert's Hotel, even if all rooms are occupied when the buses arrive.