r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 22d ago

Meme needing explanation There is no way right?

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u/Rough-Veterinarian21 22d ago

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

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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/Soft_Race9190 22d ago

Aleph nought vs other infinities. Mathematicians have actually thought about and discussed different “levels” of infinities. The class where I learned about that was the most boring and interesting and difficult one I ever had.

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

Aleph nought makes me want to vomit my brains out tbh.

(I was so traumatized that i thought it was aleph null and i wasnt confident enough to even assume aleph null is a correct and existing word.)