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Math of the gods

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@Martin said
The barrel would contain twice the infinite number of pebbles versus the bag containing an infinite number of pebbles
Actually as ATousand has explained "infinity " is a symbol not a number.

As Cantor so aptly taught us there are diferent sizes of infinity, the smallest being "countable infinities" and that is what you have:
You have a countable infinity of odd numbers in one barrel and a countable infinity of even numbers in the other, and there is no differnce in "number" because we talk about symbols.

The prrof is simple: tell me the highest number in any of the barrel (which will represent about the half of the tiles in it). I can give you a higher number for the other, bit this can be topped again by adding one into infinity. In fact there is no biggest number and less so a "double" of the biggest numer (which would proove that the "biggest" wasn't.

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@Martin said
???

Isn't that what I just said
No. You didn't factor in the fact that the barrel has one removed from it every day so the net increase is 1, not 2.

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Scebario 2? The second option from post one is just symmetric to the first, so odd and even numbered pebbles are reversed.


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@Paul-Martin
I reread:

* the barrel won't eb empty since you add two pebbles ab´nd remove one.
* Of course the bag would contain the lowest numbers while the barrel yould contian the highest numbers, but as said befire if you approach infinity both halves will approach infinity.