• Doctor xNo@r.nf
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    1 year ago

    But it is a value. Just one we tend to avoid by claiming it doesn’t exist or is impossible… Our minds just have a hard time imagining it, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

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      Our minds? Infinity isn’t something we don’t understand - we invented the concept of infinity. The mathematics community agreed on its definition, which includes the fact that infinity is not a real number, it literally does not exist. Show me infinity, I’ll give you infinity+1.

      You deciding that infinity means something else is not a math problem but a language problem, so if being right about this is that important to you, start a petition or something

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        1 year ago

        So you believe the universe just ends somewhere with nothing behind it?

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          What’s that got to do with anything? Infinity is just shorthand for “ever-increasing number”.

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              First sentence from Wikipedia: “Infinity is something which is boundless, endless, or larger than any natural number.”

              In other terms give me a natural number n, I’ll show you a larger number, n+1, and I’ll do it again and again. That’s the definition of infinity. There’s always a bigger number.

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                Boundless and endless (and the fact it’s larger than any number) doesn’t mean it’s ever-growing. It already is.

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                  Right! hence why you can only approach it with the limit notation, never operate on it directly. Please, take a calculus class. You might even learn this on day 1

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                    Again, I did… If I could argue all this out of pure imagination, now that would be something…