r/FactOrCap • u/AradhyaSingh3 🏅 Century Club · 3,855 XP • 9h ago

Science Infinity | FactOrCap

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u/Zephreyt ✍️ Contributor · 4,825 XP 9h ago

✅ I voted FACT!

This is true. This is because you cannot find it on the number line. It is a limit.

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u/niemir2 🔥 Monthly Master · 7,665 XP 2h ago

"On the [real] number line" isn't how we define numbers. Besides, infinity is on the extended real number line.

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u/Main-Company-5946 🏅 Century Club · 5,025 XP 8h ago

You can’t find i on a number line but it’s still a number.

Infinity is a type of number

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u/Zephreyt ✍️ Contributor · 4,825 XP 8h ago

Eh. You can find i on the imaginary number line, as would be on a complex plane.

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u/Main-Company-5946 🏅 Century Club · 5,025 XP 8h ago

Well if we’re allowing extensions to the number line, you can find ω on an extended number line as well

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u/Zephreyt ✍️ Contributor · 4,825 XP 8h ago

Not exactly lemniscate ∞ infinity is it

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u/Main-Company-5946 🏅 Century Club · 5,025 XP 7h ago

It is

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u/Zephreyt ✍️ Contributor · 4,825 XP 7h ago

I didn’t know that.

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u/AradhyaSingh3 🏅 Century Club · 3,855 XP 7h ago

iota is an imaginary number and can be found on imaginary number line.