/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9795953
>>a set of infinities is bigger than infinity!
Who are you quoting?

>set

Infinity is not a value, it's just a symbol.

>>9795953
If you have a plane with an infinite number of non intersecting lines, and a plane with an infinate number of both intersecting and non-intersecting lines, the second plane has more lines.

>>9796253
>if i make infinity mean something that it doesn't, you can have a bigger infinity

>>9796256
How? I'm a brainlet, please explain. To me it sounds like the number of lines on the second plane is more infinate than the first.

>>9796270
if you close off infinity by treating it as though it's a quantity, it's no longer infinite. it doesn't just mean "a really big number".

>>9796240
THIS.

>>9796270
>more infinate

>it's a no one on /sci/ understands set theory but acts as they do episode

>>9797568
I didn't ask for this episode

>>9795953
Not in the the limit as n -> infinity :^)

Mathematicians should be quarantined.

>>9797568
more like a rerun

>>9796253
I bet you think there are more natural numbers than odd numbers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbeA1rhV0D0

>>9795953
Once you take analysis and deal with things measure, lindelof property, etc it becomes really clear how different countable and uncountable infinities are.

>>9796277

>there's an infinite amount of parallel lines
>durrr it's not infinite because you said it's infinite

>>9797568

2^|N| < 2^|R|

I love it when "i fucking love math n sciens" types come to me and tell me "woow did u know there are infinities that are bigger than other infinities??" and I respond... "well, that's because the mathematicians literally came up with the axiom of powerset which says you can just take powersets of infinite sets even tho there's no justification for that... wake up kid" brainlets....