Comment on The Last Answer, by Isaac AsimovparentComments−CurtMonash11yNo, not a subset, for no more reason than that 17 is a member of the latter set and not of the former one.What you're seeing is a 1:1 correspondence between an infinite set (the natural numbers) and a proper subset of same (the even natural numbers).
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No, not a subset, for no more reason than that 17 is a member of the latter set and not of the former one.
What you're seeing is a 1:1 correspondence between an infinite set (the natural numbers) and a proper subset of same (the even natural numbers).