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Infinite is just a fancy word for endless, anyway.
by thriftwy 4y ago
Infinite is just a fancy word for endless, anyway.
- short_sells_poo 4y agoNot necessarily:) A circle is endless, and yet certainly isn't infinite.
- jdkee 4y agoA circle is made up of an uncountably infinite set of points.
- selcuka 4y agoA line segment is also made up of an infinite set of points, but it's not endless.
- davrosthedalek 4y agoYou can also map the all reals to the reals between 0 and 1, so the infiniteness of the extend isn't that crucial.
- hunter2_ 4y agoI can just imagine someone coming up with the infinity symbol, and arguing (as we are here) about whether a circle represents the idea. No, not quite; it needs something more... another circle should suffice, and connect them seamlessly. Yes, yes. This looks much more infinite than a mere circle.
- jameshart 4y agoInfinite literally means ‘without end’. Finite means ‘something that finishes’. Infinite means ‘something that does not finish’.
- dragonwriter 4y agoEtymology is not the same thing as denotation.