balderdash to memes@lemmy.world · edit-211 months agoEDIT: I THINK I STAND CORRECTEDimagemessage-square221fedilinkarrow-up1346arrow-down155file-text
arrow-up1291arrow-down1imageEDIT: I THINK I STAND CORRECTEDbalderdash to memes@lemmy.world · edit-211 months agomessage-square221fedilinkfile-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