DiveIntoMark at the Infinite Hotel


This blog, DiveIntoMark contemplating the Infinite Hotel , is what I like about the web: finding a mind acting as a lens into some topic.

The infinite hotel has an infinite number of rooms, each occupied. How do you fit in a newly arrived guest? I was thinking you could add the guest to room infinity + 1, but infinity is not a number like an integer:
there's no Room #infinity (or room ℵ0).
(now I know how to make an aleph-null!).

This nicely complements my current reading of Cryptonomicon , which certainly plays with the notion that putting pure information at an acupuncture point of karmic decisiveness can produce real effects in the real world (e.g., shaping the course of war).

Posted: Fri - December 5, 2003 at 03:34 PM      

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