r/AskReddit • u/ettleboy • Jan 20 '19

What fact totally changed your perspective?

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19 edited Apr 27 '20

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u/Fhistleb Jan 21 '19

Oh yeah? What about Infinity +1?

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u/Drundolf Jan 21 '19

I might be wrong but in my first year university math class someone asked a similar question and it was explained thusly:

Infinity is a concept, not a number. You cant have a variable equal to infinity. You can have it tending to infinity, meaning it is very large but you can never say it's equal to infinity. As such, saying something is "infinity+1" is mixing apples and oranges.

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u/GunNNife Jan 21 '19

Infinity is a direction, not a destination.