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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (21 children)

Aren't there numbers past (plus/minus) infinity? Last I hear there's some omega stuff (for denoting numbers "past infinity") and it's not even the usual alpha-beta-omega flavour.

Come to think of it, is there even a notation for "the last possible number" in math? aka something that you just can't tack "+1" at the end of to make a new number?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

Which of the infinities? There are many, many :D

The smallest infinity is the size of the natural numbers. That infinty, Aleph zero, is smaller than the infinity of the real numbers, Aleph one. "etc."

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_number

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

No matter what Wikipedia says, Aleph Null is the real way to say it, because it sounds so much cooler

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I agree. But I'm Danish, where zero is called nul and and Ø is in the alphabet, so I try to cool ot a bit with the coolness.

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