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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Where is i? Is it safe? Is it alright?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Please stop talking about your imaginary girlfriend, it's embarrassing honestly.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope, you fell for the classic sibling blunder:

What about INFINITY PLUS ONE!?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

It's Infinity! Infinity -1? also infinity! Well what about infinity times infinity? Believe it or not, infinity! ♾️

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Infinity gangsta when aleph null walks in

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What about infinity times zero?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

For that one we're going to call my good friend L'Hôpital. That guy rules!

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Last time I saw this kind of challenge it was on reddit and I just replied with ℝ, but people brought up that this leaves out complex numbers. I'll now contend, however, that any number not included in that isn't real.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Quaternions hello?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about quaternions and octonions and ...

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This image goes so hard

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Just like birds, complex numbers aren't real!

Screw you sqrt(-1), you aren't even a real number, you poser!

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Aren't there numbers past (plus/minus) infinity? Last I hear there's some omega stuff (for denoting numbers "past infinity") and it's not even the usual alpha-beta-omega flavour.

Come to think of it, is there even a notation for "the last possible number" in math? aka something that you just can't tack "+1" at the end of to make a new number?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Which of the infinities? There are many, many :D

The smallest infinity is the size of the natural numbers. That infinty, Aleph zero, is smaller than the infinity of the real numbers, Aleph one. "etc."

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_number

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which of the infinities? There are many, many :D

Oh no! Please don't tell me there are infinity infinities!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately yes there are and it's a very big infinity of infinties....

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, they ran out of greek letters and started using Hebrew ones now? When did that happen?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

There is nothing "past" infinity, infinity is more a concept than a number, there are however many different kinds of infinity. And for the record, infinity + 1 = infinity, those are completely equal. Infinity + infinity = infinity x 2 = still the same kind of infinity. Infinity times infinity is debatably a different kind of infinity but there are fairly simple ways of showing it can be counted the same.

Essentially the number of numbers between 1 and 2 is the same as the number of numbers between 0 and infinity. They are still infinite.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i isn't a real number, you imagined it

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From gatekeeping to gaslighting in 2 comments. Not bad!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

What a girlboss

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

not a real number

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh you like math? Name all the sets of sets that don’t include themselves.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Russell is that you? Please stop breaking my formal systems

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

[0-9]*\.?[0-9]*

edit: ok no empty strings [0-9]+\.?[0-9]*

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That regex implies “” is a number

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

If I had a nickel for every time that happened I'd have "" nickels.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I didn't realize '.' is a number.

\([0-9]+\.[0-9]\)?[0-9]* is more accurate I think.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

You also have to remember to put the +C at the end

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Fred.

(∀x:Number(x)=T)(Name(x)="Fred")

I name every number Fred.

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