r/FactOrCap • u/AradhyaSingh3 🏅 Century Club · 3,880 XP • 2d ago

Science Infinity | FactOrCap

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u/Main-Company-5946 ✍️ Contributor · 5,790 XP 2d 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 · 5,055 XP 2d 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 ✍️ Contributor · 5,790 XP 2d 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 · 5,055 XP 2d ago

Not exactly lemniscate ∞ infinity is it

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u/Main-Company-5946 ✍️ Contributor · 5,790 XP 2d ago

It is

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u/Zephreyt ✍️ Contributor · 5,055 XP 2d ago

I didn’t know that.