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Omega is the lowest countable infinity. There's no parity within a countable infinite as you describe.

It's only even or odd with respect to other infinities which the cardinal numbers can count based on the presence of a bijection or not. It's a kind of relative parity.



> There's no parity within a countable infinite as you describe.

That directly contradicts the quoted text I included from the original answer though, as far as I understand. It directly asserted that "every infinite cardinal is even".

> It's a kind of relative parity.

What is relative parity? The original question was whether infinity is even or odd... I don't know what you mean by relative parity.




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