/sci/ - Science & Math

Hi, I've been reading through baby Rudin and have learnt the following:

1. There are countably many rational numbers (m/n)!
OK, that one is easy to prove and understand.

2. There are uncountably many real numbers (impossible to express by m/n)!
This means that there are infinitely more real numbers than rational numbers. OK.

3. Between any two real numbers there is a rational numbers.
This is also proven, and can be even further developed, that between any two irrational numbers there are infinitely many rational numbers.
Here's my problem now So, ok, the number of IRRATIONAL numbers is infinitely many times larger than the number of RATIONAL numbers (uncountable infinity v countable infinity).

Yet somehow, between any two irrational numbers there are infinitely many rational numbers.

Fuck Math!

Don't do math

>>4734449

There really isn't a 12 step program.

Here are some basic directions which are good advice:

1. Build an emergency fund of six to eighteen months living expenses. This is so you have the opportunity to find new work in the event of a market crash since people losing jobs en masse and share prices dropping dramatically are likely to be connected.

2. Create a portfolio using exchange traded funds and index funds. This is a great example of how it is done properly:

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3. Invest your savings and automatically reinvest all dividends for several decades. Never sell. Save as much as possible. Keep your fees as low as possible. Do not use synthetically replicated index funds or ETFs. Rebalance between your asset classes using time or trigger band rebalancing depending on whether you are taking moderate or high risks respectively.

4. You should now be a multi-millionaire if you've put in any effort at all and held your nerve. You're welcome.

Note: This is nowhere near enough information to make this work. Primarily you need to understand this post completely and the background theory that goes with it otherwise you are almost certain to flak out and panic sell at some point in the next couple of decades. e.g. World War III style events.

Note: I am not claiming this process will work for everybody, just the average intelligent investor with no special connections or vast amounts of wealth to manipulate. There are many roads to Rome and this is one of them. Its simplicity is beguiling, it is actually very difficult and few people manage to do it properly. Simple != Easy

the fuck is FOAM?