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.
Right! hence why you can only approach it with the limit notation, never operate on it directly. Please, take a calculus class. You might even learn this on day 1
doctorn@r.nf 9 months ago
Uhm… No it’s not… 🤨
0ops@lemm.ee 9 months 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.
doctorn@r.nf 9 months ago
Boundless and endless (and the fact it’s larger than any number doesn’t mean it’s ever-growing. It already is.
0ops@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Right! hence why you can only approach it with the limit notation, never operate on it directly. Please, take a calculus class. You might even learn this on day 1