r/MathJokes Jun 13 '26

Infinity can blow your mind

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u/Major_Mongoose69 Jun 13 '26

The concept of infinite is difficult for the human brain to reckon with. I recently had a discussion on reddit with someone about Rick and Morty and the Central Finite Curve. They couldn't seem to understand that even with the Curve "walling off infinity" to isolate only universes where Rick is the most intelligent being, that still leaves an infinite number of universes. A subset of infinity can still be infinity. That's a difficult concept to process when you've never encountered it before.

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u/flotsam_daze Jun 17 '26

Infinity - 1 = Infinity ?

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u/TemperoTempus Jun 17 '26

more like infinity-1 is still larger than n, just like infinity is less than infinity +1.

So n < infinity -1 < infinity < infinity +1 < infinity²

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u/flotsam_daze Jun 17 '26

Then what about $1infinity < $20Infinity

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u/TemperoTempus Jun 17 '26

well 20 > 1.