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    5 months ago

    Infinity is a concept that we made up for the purpose of explaining some math. Prove me wrong.

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            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)

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      125 months ago

      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

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          Quite the opposite imo, if there was a definite “largest number”, it would be an engine limitation. It is literally an actual issue with numbers representations in computers.

          Now, some aspects of quantum physics really feel like IRL engine limitations though