Here is one of the ways in which mathematics has blown my mind recently: it turns out that it is possible to construct a bijection between the natural numbers and the set of all primes. That is to say, if we take the natural numbers (1, 2, 3, 4, and so on) and the prime numbers (2, 3, 5, 7, and so on), there exists some function (beats me what, but
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