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Room Service!

Every room in our hotel has electricity, so just send a few short sharp tones down the line if you need something from us. The electrons are waiting.

You know that story about a hotel?

I'll paraphrase it as my freewrite today. It's meant to teach you about infinities.

You've built a hotel with an infinite number of rooms! Congratulations!

Your employee makes a vacancy sign and as they're about to add the optional "no" you tell them, don't worry about that. There's an infinite number of rooms. It will never be full. Skeptical and disrespectful, they still make the no. You put it behind a plant.

Lo and behold, a bus with an infinite amount of people pulls up. They're all going to the infinity room at the conference center. They fill up the hotel.

Your employee, a self-satisfied smirk on their face reaches behind the plant. "Hang on." you stop them.

All the infinite number of people find their rooms and settle in. Then another guest shows up. Your employee, SO SASSY, gives you a "told you so" look.

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silly!! I like it! Is this a real story you are referencing? What is it called ??

Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel https://g.co/kgs/fYFYn2

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Let’s go to that hotel and check it out!!! 😜

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