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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by balderdash9@lemmy.zip to c/memes@lemmy.world

I considered deleting the post, but this seems more cowardly than just admitting I was wrong. But TIL something!

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[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 11 points 9 months ago
[-] olafurp@lemmy.world -5 points 9 months ago

That's not a true statement. 2∞ < ∞ and ∞ < 2∞ is how you'd write it.

Otherwise you could subtract infinity from both sides and get 0 = ∞.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

Except subtraction is not applicable in this case

[-] dilute6474@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago

Not true. 2∞ is not bigger or smaller than ∞. This is explained by Hilbert's hotel. And subtracting infinity from infinity is undefined so you do not get 0 = ∞.

[-] lemmington_steele@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

even if that's not how you can write it, one gets the same issue in yours subtracting infinity from both sides

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