There is a sense in which infinity is the most finite concept, that it turns more than a trillion unfathomably large numbers into one tiny easy-to-digest idea... like a thought-terminating cliche of >

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snek_boi@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 126d

Love it.

And the opposite is true of zero. It turns nothing into something.

nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 10 pts · 126d (2 replies)

Infinity is not a number . (oblig. Numberphile)

NateNate60@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 125d

Riemann sphere has entered the chat

Infrapink@thebrainbin.org · 1 pts · 126d

It's not a number and yet you can still do maths with it

Wolf314159@startrek.website · 4 pts · 126d

Clearly you've never listened to mathematicians talk about infinities. Things get weird when you try to develop concepts around the inconceivably large and small. If infinity is a thought terminating cliche from your perspective, my suggestion would be to change your perspective.

Tonava@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 126d
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