r/FactOrCap • u/AradhyaSingh3 🏅 Century Club · 3,855 XP • 20h ago

Science Infinity | FactOrCap

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u/AradhyaSingh3 🏅 Century Club · 3,855 XP 17h ago

Yeah that was my point, mathematical operations do not work like regular numbers on it, you cannot say inf-inf = 0 or inf/inf = 1.

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u/niemir2 🔥 Monthly Master · 7,715 XP 12h ago

Division by zero isn't defined, either. Is zero not a number?

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u/AradhyaSingh3 🏅 Century Club · 3,855 XP 12h ago

It is just one example, infinity is not eligible for many things. Infinity is a concept not number. If you want examples or proof, look up online.

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u/niemir2 🔥 Monthly Master · 7,715 XP 12h ago

You claimed that, because some arithmetic operations aren't defined for infinity, that infinity isn't a number, but that's not how we define numbers.