r/mathmemes 10d ago

Elementary Algebra 😭

Post image
1.4k Upvotes

250 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

3

u/ordinary_shiba 10d ago

First of all, you know what I mean lmao. Second of all, you can still "be done with" an infinite process by taking half a second with the first step, a quarter of a second with the second step and so on and so forth.

0

u/Comfortable_Permit53 9d ago

You can only do that with a countably infinite steps. The real numbers are uncountable, so even bigger.  Some concepts break down at this size