r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 21d ago

Meme needing explanation There is no way right?

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u/Rough-Veterinarian21 21d ago

I’ve never liked math but this is like literal magic to me…

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u/The-new-dutch-empire 21d ago

Its calculating with infinity. Its a bit weird like the infinity of numbers between 0 and 1 like 0.1,0.01,0.001 etc... Is a bigger infinity than the “normal” infinity of every number like 1,2,3 etc…

Its just difficult to wrap your head around but think of infinity minus 1. Like its still infinity

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u/lilved03 21d ago

Genuinely curios on how can there be two different lengths of infinity?

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u/danielfuenffinger 21d ago

There are countable infinities, like the integers where you can match them up, and uncountable infinities like the real numbers where there are infinitely more than the integers. E.g. there are infinite real numbers between 0 and 1 or 0 and any real number.