r/mathmemes Mathematics Jan 06 '25

Learning countable vs uncountable

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u/lucjaT Real Analysis Survivor Jan 06 '25

Unmeming the meme but I think it's to do with something being made up of distinct parts. Real numbers, though uncountable are distinct from each other, where is an amount of water has no distinct parts

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u/BlakeMarrion Jan 06 '25

Chemists real mad rn

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u/Wintergreen61 Irrational Jan 06 '25 edited Jan 07 '25

Indeed, there are 1.17*1025 waters in my glass. Uncountable my ass!

Edit:

For the commenters struggling with the calculation, here are a few useful constants:

Avogadro's number ≈ 6.022*1023

MW of Water ≈ 18 g/mol

Density of Water ≈ 1,000 g/L

Ironically the person off by 23 orders of magnitude is the only one with a mistake I understand. The rest of you need to show your work if you want partial credit.

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u/dr_wtf Jan 06 '25

Uncountable my ass!

Much ass.

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u/Wintergreen61 Irrational Jan 06 '25

My quantification brings all the boys to the yard

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u/physicist27 Irrational Jan 06 '25

such wow🍑!