balderdash to memes@lemmy.world • edit-211 months agoEDIT: I THINK I STAND CORRECTEDlemmy.zipimagemessage-square221fedilinkarrow-up1336arrow-down152file-text
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I considered deleting the post, but this seems more cowardly than just admitting I was wrong. But TIL something!
minus-square@Atomic@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink21•11 months agoInfinity is not a number. Infinity is infinity. People are confusing Infinity with lim x->Infinity. There’s a huge difference.
minus-square@Kethal@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink4•edit-211 months 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
minus-square@ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•11 months ago There’s a huge difference. Infinitely huge?
Infinity is not a number. Infinity is infinity.
People are confusing Infinity with lim x->Infinity. There’s a huge difference.
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
Infinitely huge?