Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> What is unintuitive to me is that if you draw a numberline on the wall 
> and toss a dart at it (figuratively speaking), your probability of 
> hitting a rational number is zero. That is, there are so many more reals 
> than rationals that the chance of picking a real that's rational at 
> random is literally zero. It would seem there's *some* epsilon chance, 
> but apparently not. :-)

  Yet between any two chosen real numbers there's an infinite amount of
rational numbers, and vice-versa. There's no range of real numbers where
there wouldn't be an infinite amount of rational numbers.
  Yet there are "more" real numbers than rational numbers.

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                                                          - Warp

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