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Veraven@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 1 day ago

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Veraven@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 1 day ago
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  • xia@lemmy.sdf.org
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    19 hours ago

    Janet, from 'The Good Place', saying 'Not a number...'

    • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
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      Needs alt text.

      Edit: 👍


      ordinal number

      • sus@programming.dev
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        It’s not an ordinal number either

        • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
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          They are infinite numbers. ∞ can refer to any of them.

      • xia@lemmy.sdf.org
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        19 hours ago

        Done.

  • 𝕊𝕞𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕞 𝕎𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕔@lemmy.world
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    Infinity ain’t a number though, it’s a concept

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      What about infinity +1

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        Well done you just invented ordinals

        • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          The awful handegg team from Arizona or the pretty good stickball outfit from St Louis?

          • 𝕊𝕞𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕞 𝕎𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕔@lemmy.world
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            Nah, you’re confusing them with the highest ranking navy position

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        That’s a slightly bigger concept.

    • its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      All numbers are concepts.

      • Zwiebel@feddit.org
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        And infinity still isn’t a number

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          Misleading, at best, factually incorrect at worst.

          Infinity is a number, unless your problem is that the indefinite article was there, but it is a number.

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          infinite numbers exist: they’re all ∞

        • its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          When did I say that?

          • xia@lemmy.sdf.org
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            19 hours ago

            Monday, October 27th, 2025 at 9:16:42 AM GMT-05:00

            • its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              Not seeing it. Maybe you could quote me saying that?

              • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                Right there, above the red line.

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uk
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        All numbers are concepts

        But some numbers are more conceptual

      • 𝕊𝕞𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕞 𝕎𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕔@lemmy.world
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        Yes, but not all concepts are numbers

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          Exactly! The disqualifier for infinity isn’t the fact that it’s a concept, it’s because it doesn’t behave like a number.

          • 𝕊𝕞𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕞 𝕎𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕔@lemmy.world
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            Ah okay: Infinity is a concept, but is NOT a measurable quantity or unit and thus is not a number

            • its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              Well said. Another example is (infinity)+1=(infinity)

              If you subtract infinity from both sides you’re left with 1=0. Which is impossible. Similar things happen with multiplication and division.

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