• KmlSlmk64@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    IIRC Depends if you talk about cardinal or ordinal numbers. What I remember: In cardinal numbers (the normal numbers we think of, which denote quantity, etc.) have their maximum in infinity. But in ordinal numbers (which denote order - first, second, etc.) Can go past infinity - the first after infinity is omega. Then omega +1. And then some bigger stuff, which I don’t remember much, like aleph 0 and more.

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      1 year ago

      So wait, you can’t have numbers larger than infinity, but you can order them “past infinity”? I’m trying to wrap my head around the concept, and the clearest thing I can get at the moment is that the "infinity+1"th number is infinity… would that be right?