Thought Experiment: The Infinite Hilbert's Hotel
Season 49
Episode 19
About the Episode
In a thought experiment first proposed in the 1920s, the Hilbert’s Hotel has an infinite number of rooms and helps demonstrate some of the strange properties of infinity.
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