stackyFACTSHilbert's paradox outlines a fully occupied hotel with infinite rooms. If a new guest arrives, the manager simply moves room one to room two, room two to room three, forever. It easily frees up the first room, proving that infinity plus one is still just infinity, making accounting completely pointless.
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