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lupire | 1 day ago

Right, but that's the opposite of what the Quanta article says. The article says that Cantor and Dedekind discovered infinity in bounded intervals. What they discovered (really, what they concocted) was uncountable infinity.

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littlestymaar|1 day ago

Quanta messing things up isn't a particularly rare occurrence, unfortunately.