Math people, help me out with a conversation I had with my kid about the following:

If no context information is provided, would you say that the closed interval [0,1] is

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@SvenGeier It probably depends strongly on who you ask. I can see that many mathematicians might think first of cardinality, but I think basically anyone else would think of the length and consequently call it finite. This is probably not least because most people outside of a few STEM fields have no concept of cardinality.

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