• @[email protected]
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    2 months ago

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

    • @Klear
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      142 months ago

      Infinity. Checkmate.

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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)

    • Kogasa
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      122 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

      • @Jax
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        22 months ago

        That seems more like an engine limitation than proof of infinity, to me anyway.

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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