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by noqc 409 days ago
in between any two real numbers, there is a rational number, and vice versa.
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And yet somehow there are infinity times more reals than rationals...

Very hard to get your head around!

An fun, immediate, horrifying, consequence.

If I remove n elements from R, the remainder has n+1 connected components.

The complement of Z in R has |Z| connected components.

The complement of Q in R has |R| connected components.