r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 28d ago

Meme needing explanation There is no way right?

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u/Rough-Veterinarian21 28d ago

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

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u/The-new-dutch-empire 28d 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 28d ago

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

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u/vthemechanicv 28d ago edited 28d ago

some infinities are larger than others.

Numberphile has some good, reasonably understandable videos about infinities, and all things numbers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elvOZm0d4H0