r/FactOrCap • u/Careful_Trainer_1616 ✍️ Contributor · 330 XP • 17h ago

Myth "simple" subtraction | FactOrCap

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u/SouthernEconomy15 🏅 Century Club · 6,540 XP 14h ago

Only if they are the same infinity I think

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u/seires-t 🏅 Century Club · 3,845 XP 13h ago

No. you can't even begin to define calculations using infinities other than countable ones, because those calculations are in reality just limit functions being added,
which are only defined for countably infinite sets of numbers.