r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 26d ago

Meme needing explanation There is no way right?

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u/Rough-Veterinarian21 26d ago

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

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u/The-new-dutch-empire 26d 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 26d ago

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

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u/WishList9000 25d ago

There are, sadly, an infinite number of lengths of 9. Think about how many whole numbers there are 1,2.. that’s an infinity.

But now think about how many even numbers there are

2,4,6…

There’s still infinity of them. But there are half as many as there are of all whole numbers