99 bottles of beer on the wall(1955)

Mark A. Mandel mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU
Fri Jun 25 14:31:23 UTC 2004


I came up with this mathematician's version:

Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall,
Aleph-null bottles of beer,
Take one down, pass it around,
Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall.

Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall,
Aleph-null bottles of beer,
Take aleph-null down, pass them around,
Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall.

Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall,
Aleph-null bottles of beer,
Take aleph-null bottles down aleph-null times,
Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall.

(Aleph-null is the smallest infinite number. How many integers are there?
Aleph-null. If you're counting things and there is an infinite number of
them, how many are there? Aleph-null.)

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