11: Who uses the 10-08-42 rule?
Lateral with Tom Scott
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The Room Number Is Not Relevant to the Question
I was going to say like if they change the rooms of the hotel and they were now two rooms, but they'd already numbered them. But I feel like you would just put B, like room A, room B, or something like that with the same number rather than just like plus one. So that doesn't make any sense. This isn't Hilbert's hotel, is it? this isn't that thing with the infinite hotel where an infinite number of mathematicians arrive. They all have to move down one. It doesn't specify what virtual it is, but no, it's not that.
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