Odd factoids

[Dirk]

This statement is still true if 'toenails' is replaced with 'brummies'.




EDIT. No offence to brummies, I had to pick on some group or other.

Oi!

 

[Threevok]

Pirates calculated the circumference of the Earth, by eating pies - usually more than one

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Oi!

Sorry.

 

[Drago]

Sir Walter Raleigh was the first person to bring a bicycle back from the Americas to England.

 

[Fonze]

Rats laugh when they get tickled ..
German soldiers were fed cattle steroids during the war to make them aggressive enough to go over the top, trenches.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

A typographic error in an opera title lost Cornwall a fortune in royalties for the invention of see through cooking vessels, when the printers mistyped the Pyrex of Penzance.

 

[winjim]

There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested.

Then how do you know there are >1k ?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Chris Froome has a pink bike ready for the Giro

 

[Dirk]

Sir Walter Raleigh was the first person to bring a bicycle back from the Americas to England.

Was it a Trek?

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Then how do you know there are >1k ?

The others are still revising for the test.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

There are an infinite number of rational factoids and there are an infinite number of whole factoids but there are more rational factoids than whole factoids.

 

[classic33]

There are an infinite number of rational factoids and there are an infinite number of whole factoids but there are more rational factoids than whole factoids.

And irrational factoids?

 

[jefmcg]

There are an infinite number of rational factoids and there are an infinite number of whole factoids but there are more rational factoids than whole factoids.

That's not true. You can created a one to one mapping between rational factoids and whole factoids, so there is the same number (countably infinite).

However, the set of irrational factoids (as this thread proves) is uncountably infinite and therefore larger than the sets of rational and whole factoids

 

[Salty seadog]

But the nearby village of Ham is.

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I grew up in the village of Eastry which is 1 mile from ham and 2 from sandwich. Folks are still there, I'm only 10 miles away now. Regularly ride past that sign.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

That's not true. You can created a one to one mapping between rational factoids and whole factoids, so there is the same number (countably infinite).

However, the set of irrational factoids (as this thread proves) is uncountably infinite and therefore larger than the sets of rational and whole factoids

Go on then show us the one to one mapping