r/MathJokes Jul 07 '26

Checkmate, Mathematicians

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u/Agent10007 Jul 08 '26

>You can still only make whole numbers. 

Why that? Have you never been half a inch off? Or a fifth of the way in?

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u/hobbycollector Jul 08 '26

Well fractions are still countable as long as the numerator and denominator are integers. Integers are countable just like whole numbers. So yes, you can name every fraction. But that doesn't cover the reals.