eli5:if there’s an infinite number of triangles in a circle starting from Centrepoint to circumference then why cant we make up 2 circles in the real world from a single circle?

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eli5:if there’s an infinite number of triangles in a circle starting from Centrepoint to circumference then why cant we make up 2 circles in the real world from a single circle?

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Because infinite triangles doesn’t mean you can magically pull a sphere out of thin air? How’s that reasoning supposed to work?

Do you mean that, because we can infinitely divide something, we should be able to reassemble those infinitely small things into two things? Because we can, but those two things will each be half the size of the original.

Put simply, infinite infinitely small things can have finite sizes, and in fact infinities can have different sizes.