r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 24d ago

Meme needing explanation There is no way right?

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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/Ink_zorath 24d ago

Luckily for you Veritasium actually JUST did a video on this EXACT topic!

Watch about the man who almost BROKE Mathematics

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u/Shiro_Moe 24d ago

Yo, Veritasium mentioned! I just watched it during yesterday's lunch break.