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I pretty much agree with you. I'm just worried that with all the comments about 'what is a number?', and 'sure, we can make infinity a well defined number', it
by jpallen 15y ago
I pretty much agree with you. I'm just worried that with all the comments about 'what is a number?', and 'sure, we can make infinity a well defined number', it will dilute the message of the article. Which is that infinity is not a 'number' (in the sense of real numbers). It's important to understand why it's not a number and what it means when we write it on one side of an equality.