The Ping Pong Ball Paradox
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The Ross-Littlewood paradox discusses a thought experiment involving adding and removing ping pong balls at an increasing rate, leading to counterintuitive results.
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4 months ago
tl;dr: In the “ping pong ball paradox” you keep adding balls and removing one, faster and faster, finishing in a minute. Intuitively you’d expect infinitely many balls left, but depending on how you number/remove them, you can end with none (or any number you want).
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