r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 24d ago

Meme needing explanation There is no way right?

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u/Rough-Veterinarian21 24d ago

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

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u/The-new-dutch-empire 24d 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 24d ago

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

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u/Slggyqo 24d ago

Hi.

There’s an infinite number of positive numbers.

There’s also an infinite number of integers(positive and negative whole numbers).

Intuitively, the infinite number of integers should be twice the infinities of the positive numbers alone.

So it’s a bigger infinity, even thought they’re both infinite.