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It's an illegal operation
by fctorial 6y ago
It's an illegal operation
- exmadscientist 6y ago"Infinity plus one" is completely legal and well-defined in multiple mathematical formalisms [0], not least of which (and my personal favorite) are the surreal numbers [1]. [0] https://blog.plover.com/math/infinity-for-kids.html https://blog.plover.com/math/infinity-for-kids.html [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_number#Transfinite_induction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_number#Transfinite_ind...
- fctorial 6y agoI meant adding infinity to both sides
- exmadscientist 6y agoWorking in the surreal numbers, you can, in fact, add "infinity" (specifically, the one usually called ω) to both sides of an equation, and everything is rigorously defined and works correctly.