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psYchoticyesterday at 9:43 PM2 repliesview on HN

That helps. Thank you!

I was trying to come up with something to explain why I couldn't see it myself: every element of an empty set of integers is both even and odd. This feels counterintuitive to me, until I flip it around into a question: what is the set of all integers that are both even and odd?


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jibaltoday at 3:45 AM

Well done. Finding a way to look at things so that results that seemed unintuitive seem intuitive can be powerful and satisfying.

mitxelayesterday at 10:32 PM

Neat trick