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[-] Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 88 points 8 months ago

Where is i? Is it safe? Is it alright?

[-] kpw@kbin.social 19 points 8 months ago

Please stop talking about your imaginary girlfriend, it's embarrassing honestly.

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[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 76 points 8 months ago

Nope, you fell for the classic sibling blunder:

What about INFINITY PLUS ONE!?

[-] Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 29 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's Infinity! Infinity -1? also infinity! Well what about infinity times infinity? Believe it or not, infinity! ♾️

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 16 points 8 months ago

Infinity gangsta when aleph null walks in

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[-] ApexHunter@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago

What about infinity times zero?

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago

For that one we're going to call my good friend L'Hôpital. That guy rules!

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[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 73 points 8 months ago

Last time I saw this kind of challenge it was on reddit and I just replied with ℝ, but people brought up that this leaves out complex numbers. I'll now contend, however, that any number not included in that isn't real.

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 31 points 8 months ago
[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 16 points 8 months ago

Quaternions hello?

[-] hernanca@beehaw.org 6 points 8 months ago

What about quaternions and octonions and ...

[-] yetAnotherUser@feddit.de 5 points 8 months ago

{x | x is a number}

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[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago

Just like birds, complex numbers aren't real!

Screw you sqrt(-1), you aren't even a real number, you poser!

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[-] 768@sh.itjust.works 27 points 8 months ago
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[-] veniasilente@lemm.ee 25 points 8 months ago

Aren't there numbers past (plus/minus) infinity? Last I hear there's some omega stuff (for denoting numbers "past infinity") and it's not even the usual alpha-beta-omega flavour.

Come to think of it, is there even a notation for "the last possible number" in math? aka something that you just can't tack "+1" at the end of to make a new number?

[-] drbluefall@toast.ooo 26 points 8 months ago

What you're probably thinking of is Ordinal numbers.

As for your second question, I don't think any "last number" could exist unless we explicitly declared one. And even then... I'm not sure what utility there would be in declaring a "last number".

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[-] humanplayer2@lemmy.ml 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Which of the infinities? There are many, many :D

The smallest infinity is the size of the natural numbers. That infinty, Aleph zero, is smaller than the infinity of the real numbers, Aleph one. "etc."

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_number

[-] veniasilente@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

Which of the infinities? There are many, many :D

Oh no! Please don't tell me there are infinity infinities!

[-] weker01@feddit.de 6 points 8 months ago

Unfortunately yes there are and it's a very big infinity of infinties....

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[-] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Wait, they ran out of greek letters and started using Hebrew ones now? When did that happen?

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[-] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

There is nothing "past" infinity, infinity is more a concept than a number, there are however many different kinds of infinity. And for the record, infinity + 1 = infinity, those are completely equal. Infinity + infinity = infinity x 2 = still the same kind of infinity. Infinity times infinity is debatably a different kind of infinity but there are fairly simple ways of showing it can be counted the same.

Essentially the number of numbers between 1 and 2 is the same as the number of numbers between 0 and infinity. They are still infinite.

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[-] CJOtheReal@ani.social 21 points 8 months ago
[-] Godort@lemm.ee 36 points 8 months ago

i isn't a real number, you imagined it

[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 24 points 8 months ago

From gatekeeping to gaslighting in 2 comments. Not bad!

[-] Uncle_Bagel@midwest.social 6 points 8 months ago

What a girlboss

[-] callyral@pawb.social 5 points 8 months ago

not a real number

[-] hansl@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

Oh you like math? Name all the sets of sets that don’t include themselves.

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[-] Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago
[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

[0-9]*\.?[0-9]*

edit: ok no empty strings [0-9]+\.?[0-9]*

[-] amoistgrandpa@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago

That regex implies “” is a number

[-] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 20 points 8 months ago

If I had a nickel for every time that happened I'd have "" nickels.

[-] dsemy@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago

I didn't realize '.' is a number.

\([0-9]+\.[0-9]\)?[0-9]* is more accurate I think.

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[-] Ofosho@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago

I thought it was 'R', for the set of all real numbers.

Oh, so complex numbers are not numbers now?!

[-] edinbruh@feddit.it 10 points 8 months ago
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[-] Bizarroland@kbin.social 10 points 8 months ago

You also have to remember to put the +C at the end

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago
[-] callyral@pawb.social 7 points 8 months ago
[-] waigl@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago
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[-] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 months ago

Fred.

(∀x:Number(x)=T)(Name(x)="Fred")

I name every number Fred.

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