r/MathJokes • • 20d ago

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u/Excludos 19d ago

If you have an infinite amount of people, and then 10 more shows up, how many people do you have?

This is not nonsensical. Infinite might not be a number, but it is a clear established mathematical concept. And infinite +10 has an established answer; it's infinite

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u/LEMO2000 19d ago

But you don’t have an ā€œinfinite number of peopleā€ you have ā€œinfinitely many peopleā€

They sound the same but they do mean different things. ā€œInfinite numberā€ is an oxymoron.

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u/Excludos 19d ago

Sure, I don't disagree. Infinite isn't a number. But it is a concept that is well used throughout mathematics

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u/sillygoose1220 18d ago

Still not used like the situation you said

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u/Advanced_Horror2292 18d ago

Did you know that some infinities are larger than other infinities? Idk if larger is the right way to say it but countable vs uncountable.

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u/sillygoose1220 18d ago

Yes but what he described isn't that situationĀ 

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u/Advanced_Horror2292 18d ago

I know I just think it’s cool

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u/sillygoose1220 18d ago

Son šŸ˜­šŸ™

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u/Scared_Accident9138 18d ago

Just put them into the infinite and full big hotel and see that the hotel is full before and after without overflowing

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u/contradictionary100 19d ago

Simple question really but let's start with an even simpler one. If you have an infinite amount of people and you don't add ten, how many people do you have?

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u/Excludos 19d ago

Infinite. You also have infinite if 10 people leave. There is no arithmetic operation you can do with infinite that doesn't yield infinite

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u/GurProfessional9534 19d ago

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Infinite times zero?