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He lines up the rational numbers. He looks at the grimy irrational numbers between them. He grins smugly, takes out his Swiffer, and begins to Swiff them all away.

This kind of thing upsets most mathematicians. It has Cantor practically spinning in his grave.

. . . but that’s not what this story is about.

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