PBS Infinite Series

Stochastic Supertasks

2017 • E27    Aug 9, 2017    13m
What happens when you try to empty an urn full of infinite balls? It turns out that whether the vase is empty or full at the end of an infinite amount of time depends on what order you try to empty it in. Check out what happens when randomness and the Ross-Littlewood Paradox collide.

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