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>Hegel shows by recourse to calculus how infinity can be a property of the finite
Calculus shows nothing of the sort, it merely uses infinity as an abstraction in order to make approximate calculations, ie calculus is more in tune with Kant's conception of infinity (which Kant correctly renamed "indefinite") as a regulatory principle than Hegel's. Read pic related if you want a better and non-retarded understanding of calculus.
>Another analogy I like is how you can’t point to Pi on the number line, you’ll just fall more and more precisely down the chasm of its indefiniteness
That has nothing to do with the indefiniteness of a circle, it is essentially just the fact that you cannot represent circularity in a Cartesian or Euclidean geometric system. Actually it applies to all discrete geometric systems, because circularity by definition cannot be discrete qua circular. But non-discreteness does not imply indefiniteness, unless you are an autist who cannot distinguish between particular mathematical representations and reality. In other words Hegel's error stems in his fetishism of concepts or Begriffe, "the rational."