• 0ops@lemm.ee
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    First sentence from Wikipedia: “Infinity is something which is boundless, endless, or larger than any natural number.”

    In other terms give me a natural number n, I’ll show you a larger number, n+1, and I’ll do it again and again. That’s the definition of infinity. There’s always a bigger number.

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      Boundless and endless (and the fact it’s larger than any number) doesn’t mean it’s ever-growing. It already is.

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        Right! hence why you can only approach it with the limit notation, never operate on it directly. Please, take a calculus class. You might even learn this on day 1

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          Again, I did… If I could argue all this out of pure imagination, now that would be something…