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minus-square@Matriks404@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish20•edit-22 months agoInfinity is a concept that we made up for the purpose of explaining some math. Prove me wrong.
minus-square@DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafelinkfedilinkEnglish7•2 months agoOh yeah??? Infinity plus 2. Get destroyed.
minus-square@weker01@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglish6•edit-22 months agoInfinity + infinity = 2 * infinity… 3 * infinity … Infinity * infinity = infinity^2 … Infinity^3 … Infinity^infinity … If infinity is the “first” i.e. Natural infinity than those are all well defined things (Ordinals)
minus-squareKogasalinkfedilinkEnglish12•2 months agoI dunno about proving you wrong, but the fact that you can comfortably say there is no largest natural number is kind of a belief in infinity
Infinity is a concept that we made up for the purpose of explaining some math. Prove me wrong.
Infinity. Checkmate.
Infinity plus 1.
Oh yeah??? Infinity plus 2. Get destroyed.
Infinity + infinity = 2 * infinity… 3 * infinity … Infinity * infinity = infinity^2 … Infinity^3 … Infinity^infinity …
If infinity is the “first” i.e. Natural infinity than those are all well defined things (Ordinals)
I dunno about proving you wrong, but the fact that you can comfortably say there is no largest natural number is kind of a belief in infinity