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Is the mathematician's world really so insular,that someone from outside asking some questions about how a problem relates to concepts he understands gets downvoted?
Or are you pretending that unless you skate with ease over three different kinds of infinities, their differences and similarities, and the paradoxical results of probability problems with infinity in the numerator and denominator, that you are just a time wasting intruder on an otherwise valuable conversation?
Or did my questions, which I'd love to know the answer to, come across as a veiled negative comment?
Your questions were easily answered by looking up the definitions of the terms "finitely many" and "countably infinite".
Are you aware that having a mathematician tell you a question is easily answered without actually answering it is actually the punch line to a joke? Closest I can find on the web is the 2nd one on this page.
You asked why you were downvoted. I told you why; you asked a question that showed you hadn't made even a cursory attempt to understand the terms in the question.
The answers, in case you still haven't put in the minimal effort required, are
Yes, a finite portion of an infinite set is infinitely less than half.
Yes, all but a finite number of an infinite set is infinitely more than a finite number.
This is not fancy jargon. These are terms anyone who has taken highschool calculus would know.