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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@[email protected]linkfedilink23•2 years agoInfinity is not a number. Infinity is infinity. People are confusing Infinity with lim x->Infinity. There’s a huge difference.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•edit-22 years 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@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years 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?