How is this different from saying counting to infinity with integers is smaller than counting with floats?
How is this different from saying counting to infinity with integers is smaller than counting with floats?
We are not dealing with floats. Trivial, for any size being used, the number of floats that can be represented is finite.
So what this is saying is this:
Consider the collection of counting numbers: 1, 2, 3, ... and so on. Call that set N.
There is a set P which has the property that every time you try to match up items of N with items of P, there are items of P left over.
If you have some cups and saucers, and every time you laid them out you had some saucers left over, you'd say you had more saucers. Yes? Well every time we try to match up things from N with things from P we can things from P left over, so we should say we have more of them, right?
But there are infinitely many things in N, so P must be a bigger infinity.