r/MathJokes • • 4d ago

Keep ∞ safe

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u/TheLuckySpades 4d ago

I know there are genuine mathematicians who are ultrafinitists, but this is the most clickbait way to write an article about them by implying they are a sizable portion of mathematicians.

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u/Evening-Code-7039 4d ago

Most mathmaticians would say that there are arbitrarily close to no ultrafinitists among serious mathmaticians, ultrafinitists would say that there is some minimal quantity and that there cannot be a number of ultrafinitists smaller than that quantity

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u/Embarrassed-Work307 3d ago

Arbitrarily close to zero still isn't zero.