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This is getting ridiculous. How long until we have things uncountably more than other things?
by iratewizard 5y ago
This is getting ridiculous. How long until we have things uncountably more than other things?
- infogulch 5y agoCould you combining-character an aleph-1 symbol on top of one of these?
- thaumasiotes 5y agoIn math, when you care about the details of how small one thing is compared to some other thing, you probably use little-o notation. It's the same thing you're probably familiar with from computer science. So if y is small compared to x, you might say y = o(x), or if it's really small compared to x, you might say y = o(x²), or if it's really really really small, o(x⁶)... whatever you need for your proof. (o(x²) is more impressively small than o(x) because x < 1)
- HPsquared 5y agoNice That reminds me of something about the Greek letters Omega (Ω, ω) and Omicron (Ο, ο). O-mega means "big O" and O-micron means "small O".
- emilsedgh 5y agoIsn't that +∞ and -∞?
- masklinn 5y agoIt seems closer to the aleph numbers.
- jimktrains2 5y agoSome infinities are countable.
- marcosdumay 5y agoYes, but the GP's idea extends to larger infinities.
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