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xkcd #3282: Trick Play

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I've been trying to find out whether the Laws of the Game take the axiom of choice or not, but FIFA officials keep blocking my number.

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I used to have one broken point, then Banach and Tarski looked at it, now I have a Banach fixed point and a Tarski fixed point