一些逻辑训练的谜题:娜塔莎、十二点钟和茶
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>>If I may probe further, could you please help me u...
The infinities are different, you see, it's possible to assign every natural number with a real number, obviously. But we can't assign every real number with a natural number without repeating, otherwise we'll be able to give every real number bigger than 0 smaller than 1 a natural number to make the order.
Let's assume we can give all real numbers in (0,1) a name associated with a unique natural number, then we can write them like,
the 1st number 0.a(1,1)a(1,2)a(1,3)a(1,4)a(1,5)a(1,6).......
the 2nd number 0.a(2,1)a(2,2)a(2,3)a(2,4)a(2,5)a(2,6)......
.......
the a(x,y) above means a digit(ranged from 0 to 9) of such number, a(1,1) means the first digit after the decimal separator of the first number for example. All numbers in this list are supposed to cover all the real numbers in (0,1).
Then let's check out this number
W=0.b1b2b3b4b5....
where b1=a(1,1)+1(if a(1,1) is 9, then let b1 be 0, the same works below)
b2=a(2,2)+1
b3=a(3,3)+1
.....
W is well defined but different from any given kth number at the digit bk, so W won't be in the list, contradicting to our assumption.
just like the case above, we say the cardinality of the R set is bigger than the N set, because we can give each element in the latter one specific and unique element in the former, but we can't do the contrary. And obviously, when two lines are not resembling, we need two or more steps to draw them all. And you see, we need to draw a total number of both dots and lines(of different directions or locations) even bigger than the infinity of natural numbers, while our steps are always like, step 1, step 2, step 3 and so on, thus its cardinality is the same as natural numbers.
