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

On Tue, 20 May 2008 17:42:16 -0700, Lorrill Buyens wrote:

> 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...

Cut it with some cadaverine.

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