Comment on (I wonder if he knows about lemmy)1 divided by 0 (a 3rd grade teacher and principal got it wrong), Reddit r/NoStupidQuestions [4:51 | Dec 02 2023 | bprp precalculus]

• 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What’s that got to do with anything? Infinity is just shorthand for “ever-increasing number”.

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  • doctorn@r.nf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Uhm… No it’s not… 🤨

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    • 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      First sentence from Wikipedia: “Infinity is something which is boundless, endless, or larger than any natural number.”

      In other terms give me a natural number n, I’ll show you a larger number, n+1, and I’ll do it again and again. That’s the definition of infinity. There’s always a bigger number.

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      • doctorn@r.nf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Boundless and endless (and the fact it’s larger than any number doesn’t mean it’s ever-growing. It already is.

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