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Let a hotel have a Denumerable set of rooms numbered 1, 2, 3, .... Then any finite
number of guests can be accommodated without evicting the current guests by moving the current guests from room
to room
. Furthermore, a Denumerable number of guests can be similarly
accommodated by moving the existing guests from
to
, freeing up a Denumerable
number of rooms
.
References
Lauwerier, H. ``Hilbert Hotel.'' In Fractals: Endlessly Repeated Geometric Figures. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, p. 22, 1991.
Pappas, T. ``Hotel Infinity.'' The Joy of Mathematics. San Carlos, CA: Wide World Publ./Tetra, p. 37, 1989.