From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!alice!rabbit!ss Newsgroups: net.math Title: Re: The Funny Nature of Infinity Article-I.D.: rabbit.1080 Posted: Fri Jan 28 12:40:27 1983 Received: Sat Jan 29 04:55:38 1983 References: ucbvax.721 "....all infinities are the same..." THEY ARE NOT!!!! as an example the number of points in a line is infinity. The number of points in a given area is also infinity. It can be shown that the second "infinity" is larger than the first. Sharad Singhal