balderdash@lemmy.zip to memes@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agoEDIT: I THINK I STAND CORRECTEDlemmy.zipimagemessage-square213fedilinkarrow-up1348file-text
arrow-up1348imageEDIT: I THINK I STAND CORRECTEDlemmy.zipbalderdash@lemmy.zip to memes@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agomessage-square213fedilinkfile-text
I considered deleting the post, but this seems more cowardly than just admitting I was wrong. But TIL something!
minus-squareKethal@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-21 year agoThe hyperreals are a formal treatment of infinite numbers. It still doesn’t let people use infinity as a number in the way that posts like this suggest, but they’re interesting nonetheless. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreal_number
The hyperreals are a formal treatment of infinite numbers. It still doesn’t let people use infinity as a number in the way that posts like this suggest, but they’re interesting nonetheless. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreal_number