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[-] veniasilente@lemm.ee 25 points 2 years ago

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?

[-] humanplayer2@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] veniasilente@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

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

Oh no! Please don't tell me there are infinity infinities!

[-] weker01@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately yes there are and it's a very big infinity of infinties....

[-] veniasilente@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Oh wow and here I was hoping...

...actually, I don't know what, but I was hoping.

[-] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Wait, they ran out of greek letters and started using Hebrew ones now? When did that happen?

[-] Resol@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I can't wait to see how much is the number Gimel

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] humanplayer2@lemmy.ml 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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