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[โ€“] Matriks404@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

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

[โ€“] Klear@sh.itjust.works 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah??? Infinity plus 2. Get destroyed.

[โ€“] weker01@feddit.de 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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)

[โ€“] kogasa@programming.dev 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Jax@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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