Answer:
Hilbert´s Hotel (by David Hilbert)
Explanation:
Imagine you are a foreign tourist that has just arrived to a town. In that town theres the<u> Hilbert´s Hotel</u>, internationally recognized for being the only hotel with <em>infinite rooms</em>. When you arrive to the lobby, you ask the manager to give you a room:
- Manager: "Im terribly sorry, but an infinite group of people has just arrived and all the rooms are full"
- You: "How is that possible? I thought you had infinite rooms
- Manager: "Indeed, but they are now full"
- You: "But that´s impossible... if there are infinite rooms they can´t all be full. I know there´s a way for me to get a room"
What would you do? You really need that room to spend the night...
NOTES: All the rooms are listed from one to infinity and only 1 person is able to stay per room.
SOLUTION
- You: "Look friend, all you have to do is tell the infinite group to move up one room, so the person staying the room 1 will move to the 2, the 2 to 3, the 3 to 4 and so on to infinity and i can take the room number 1. That way all the tourists, including me, would have a room."
EXTENSION OF THE PROBLEM
What would you do if two infinite groups of tourist´s arrives? How would you place them in the Hilbert hotel?
(hint: pair numbers are also infinite)
Significance of the problem
This particular problem is very interesting to me because it forces me to think out of the box something not only amusing but necessary to sort out day to day events.
Answer:
The sentence shows that consonant phonemes usually carry more information than do those that represent vowels.
Explanation:
A phoneme is the <em>minimal phonological unit</em> in sound.
Consonant phonemes are the type of phonemes in which <em>air has a difficulty or an obstacle when getting out</em>, unlike vowels which allow the air to get out without an obstacle. They are <em>classified by the area</em> in which they are formed, such as the <em>nasal cavity, the oral cavity or the vocal cords</em>, amongst others.
This sentence translates to: the truth of this statement should be evident.
We can get an idea of what the sentence was before the translation which would be more difficult if we only got the vowels.
Answer:
Explanation:
The Boston tea party was a political protest from the colonials in America aimed at Britain. Basically, Britain had just passed a tax on tea for those living in America, so the colonials decided to protest by dumping the tea into the Boston Harbor. This fuelled tension between Britain and America, and was part of the reason why Americans had the revolutionary war, which lead to the independence of America from Britain.
