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

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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreal_number

      Infinite numbers are numbers. Infinity is not a real number, but it is a hyperreal number, and thus a number.

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        I wish I could say that I was surprised, but to those not mired in mathematical sophistry… infinity is the furthest concept from a number… it has no known practical use, renders numerical comparisons and operations meaningless, and destroys all numbers to which it comes into contact. If anything, I would sooner accept that it is an anti-number. :)

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      Needs alt text.

      Edit: 👍


      ordinal number

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        It’s not an ordinal number either

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          They are infinite numbers. ∞ can refer to any of them.

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        Done.

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