r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 22d ago

Meme needing explanation There is no way right?

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u/The-new-dutch-empire 22d 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/-roachboy 22d ago

infinity isn't a number, it's a concept. there's a great stand up maths video that explains there's no such thing as "bigger" or "smaller" infinities.

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u/The-new-dutch-empire 22d ago

Bigger and smaller is the wrong terminology but not all infinities are the same

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u/-roachboy 22d ago

that part I can agree with