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Duplicated string in some code.
New developer: "Approved."
Mid-experienced developer: "This violates DRY and should be extracted to a constant."
Experienced developer: "Approved."
Georg Cantor introduced the concept of different "sizes" of infinity, which is counter-intuitive when you first encounter it. For many people, the idea of infinity means something without end, unlimited and universally same-sized. But Cantor, through his work on set theory, demonstrated that there are hierarchies of infinity—some infinities are indeed "larger" than others.
To explain this, Cantor showed that the set of all natural numbers (1, 2, 3, ...) is countably infinite, meaning you can enumerate them one by one. However, if you take the set of all real numbers between 0 and 1, this set is uncountably infinite—there's no possible way to enumerate all of them because between any two real numbers, you can always find another real number.
This realization led Cantor to describe these two different kinds of infinity using the terms "aleph-null" (ℵ₀) for the countable infinity of natural numbers, and "continuum" (c) for the uncountable infinity of real numbers. This concept of multiple infinities, or "transfinite" numbers, is foundational to much of modern mathematics, though it was quite controversial at the time of its introduction. Some of Cantor's contemporaries found his ideas on infinity to be deeply unsettling, challenging the very underpinnings of mathematics and causing vigorous debate. Over time, however, these ideas have been widely accepted and have significantly broadened our understanding of mathematics.
40 years ago today on 31st March 1983, following the huge success of The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, Steve Jackson and I published two new @fightingfantasy gamebooks, Citadel of Chaos and The Forest of Doom.
Eric M. Lang is a great asset to the tabletop game community, and it's horribly wrong that his @Twitter account (@eric_lang) has been suspended due to harassment and phony reports of account violations.
Please fix this, @Jack and @Twittersupport. —WEM