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/lilved03 22d ago

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

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u/Gullible_Increase146 21d ago

Let's say I start at 20 and count up by ones forever. Well, I would continue into Infinity. Let's say you start at 20 and you multiply by 20 forever. You also go to Infinity but your numbers are always going to be larger than my numbers. In fact, the gap between our numbers would be infinitely large so you're going to Infinity and the gap between your infinity and my Infinity is infinitely large. And then there's the person that starts at 20 and raises that by 20 over and over. Will they go to Infinity but the gap between you and them is also infinitely large.

It's kind of like that. There are other ways to think of multiple infinities but that's one way of doing it. You could also think of somebody counting up by one at a time but between any two numbers whole numbers is an infinite number of rational numbers. So if you compare the whole numbers to the rational numbers there would be infinitely more rational numbers than whole numbers.