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Am 04.07.2024 um 22:23 schrieb Chris M. Thomasson:

> I was just thinking that infinite is infinite, 

No, it isn't.

> there is an infinite number of natural numbers, 

Right, _countably_ infinitely many.

> there are an infinite amount of [real] numbers between say, .0000001 and .00000001

_Uncountably_ infinitely many.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countable_set
and: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncountable_set