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Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/donateinfi Supertasks allow you to accomplish an infinite number of tasks in a finite amount of time. Find out how these paradoxical feats get even stranger once randomness is introduced. Tweet at us! @pbsinfinite Facebook: facebook.com/pbsinfinite series Email us! pbsinfiniteseries [at] gmail [dot] com Previous Episode The Honeybcomcs of 4-Dimensional Bees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8jOxEGVyPo Vsauce - Supertasks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffUnNaQTfZE Written and Hosted by Kelsey Houston-Edwards Produced by Rusty Ward Graphics by Ray Lux Assistant Editing and Sound Design by Mike Petrow Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com) Resources: http://julio.staff.ipb.ac.id/files/2015/02/Ross_8th_ed_English.pdf -- Pg 46 Special Thanks to John Pike 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. Comments answered by Kelsey: Lowtech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8jOxEGVyPo&lc=z235h5yquwukfhh2nacdp431mqnc3ul0fvs4cy1tqpdw03c010c Daniel Shapiro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8jOxEGVyPo&lc=z235h5yquwukfhh2nacdp431mqnc3ul0fvs4cy1tqpdw03c010c.1501799589673862 Professor Politics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8jOxEGVyPo&lc=z23xhrzyrzmxeraluacdp43aqfqbpbddfp3g4myyjclw03c010c Alex 24757 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8jOxEGVyPo&lc=z23fvxw5zmq1vzvxa04t1aokgodujwhjcmcr4pmcbu5lbk0h00410