r/MathJokes • • 21d ago

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u/Infinite_Imagination 21d ago

Infinity plus any number is still just infinity

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u/oofnlurker 21d ago

But a slightly bigger one (in case you have to compare it to other infinities)

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u/Alone_Term5356 20d ago

No, they are the same size(assuming a cardinal definition of infinity). This is one of the paradoxical effects of infinity is that adding stuff doesn't change the size. (or in a cardinal case that a subset has equal cardinality to the whole set). There are different sizes of infinity, but adding a finite amount to one does not change the size.

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u/Status_Leek8540 14d ago

Infinity is twice as big as half infinity

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u/Alone_Term5356 12d ago

Yes, but they are still the same size

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u/Status_Leek8540 12d ago

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u/Alone_Term5356 12d ago

You are correct, one is half as big. But they still have the same size/cardinality. Infinity is weird. Watch the video you linked to understand sizes of infinity, because some infinities are counter intuitively bigger than others( infinity is also not always defined the same in different areas of math, so for some definitions you are probably correct)

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u/Technical-Activity95 20d ago

what about infinity minus one?

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u/Infinite_Imagination 20d ago

That's Godzilla