Re: I Think I Just Broke a Glass into an Infinite Number of Pieces

On Mon, 19 May 2008 15:01:11 -0400, Tem****al Voyager mimus
<tinmimus99@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, in a desperate attempt to change the
alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk timestream, said:

>On Mon, 19 May 2008 09:54:14 +0100, Frederick Williams wrote:
>
>> mimus wrote:
>> 
>>> At least, I swept up at least twice as much glass as could possibly
have
>>> been in the original.
>>> 
>>> And that's only possible if you do an infinite decomposition of the
>>> object, as exemplified by the Tarski-Banach ball.
>> 
>> Not infinite, five pieces suffice.  At least it's five in three
>> dimensional space, in one or two dimensions one needs aleph_0 many
>> pieces.
>
>I haven't seen or even heard of any-a these five-piece multiplicative
>reassemblies in 3-space, so I'm getting whiffs of weasel from somewhere.

Oh, sorry, that's my new cologne.  Guess "Ermine #4 & 1/2" won't be as
popular
as I thought it'd be...


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