So many eights!

Can you draw uncountable many non-intersecting “8” shapes in the plane (they can be contained in one another)?

SOLUTION

No, you can’t. For each “8” shape you can choose a pair of points with rational coordinates – one in its top loop and one in its bottom loop. Since no two “8” shapes can have the same corresponding pair of rational points, their number should be countable.

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