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[–] Shard@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not entirely true.

There are conditions where an infinite hotel can "run out" of rooms. Veritasium has a great video on this. Here's the link because there's no earthly way a dumbass like me can explain it intelligibly with just words.

https://youtu.be/OxGsU8oIWjY?t=194

[–] gratux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 year ago

This would be the case if we tried to fit an uncountable infinity into the hotel. But there is only one Sisyphos and one boulder, so we can use the above trick