balderdash@lemmy.zip to memes@lemmy.world · edit-211 months agoEDIT: I THINK I STAND CORRECTEDlemmy.zipimagemessage-square223fedilinkarrow-up1349file-text
arrow-up1349imageEDIT: I THINK I STAND CORRECTEDlemmy.zipbalderdash@lemmy.zip to memes@lemmy.world · edit-211 months agomessage-square223fedilinkfile-text
I considered deleting the post, but this seems more cowardly than just admitting I was wrong. But TIL something!
minus-squareKethal@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-211 months agoThe hyperreals are a formal treatment of infinite numbers. It still doesn’t let people use infinity as a number in the way that posts like this suggest, but they’re interesting nonetheless. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreal_number
The hyperreals are a formal treatment of infinite numbers. It still doesn’t let people use infinity as a number in the way that posts like this suggest, but they’re interesting nonetheless. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreal_number