How long is the song 'aleph-1 green bottles, hanging on the wall'?

[jack]

Poll #14435 Aleph-1 green bottles

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How long is the song 'aleph-1 green bottles, hanging on the wall'

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omega-0, songs are inherently sequential
1 (8.3%)

omega-1, one verse per bottle
3 (25.0%)

omega-3, because... fish?
1 (8.3%)

Something else
4 (33.3%)

What?
3 (25.0%)

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[jack]

We did indeed argue that :)

My original assumption was that removing one bottle from aleph-1 bottles would still leave omega-1 bottles, so the song was naturally omega-0 long (but could equally well be omega-1, omega-2, etc). But other people's assumptions was that it referred to a _particular_ set of bottles, so even if at each stage, the number of bottles remaining was aleph-1, the limit would leave nothing.