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blow_up_the_outside t1_iuarx9a wrote

Reply to comment by 86tuning in Eli5: Infinity ♾️ by [deleted]

You can for sure have infinite numbers plus one, or divided by two.

Those kind of numbers are called transfinite numbers (ω, ℵₒ, m)

They are not finite, just not absolutely infinite (∞).

But a transfinite number t + 1 is, well, (t + 1) and t / 2 is (t / 2)

Which is not the case for ∞ + 1 or ∞ / 2 which both are still ∞

Maybe I shouldn't go into transfinite numbers in eli5...

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