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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Oh wow and here I was hoping...

...actually, I don't know what, but I was hoping.

[–] DoomBot5 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Resol 3 points 11 months ago

I can't wait to see how much is the number Gimel

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

No matter what Wikipedia says, Aleph Null is the real way to say it, because it sounds so much cooler

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I agree. But I'm Danish, where zero is called nul and and Ø is in the alphabet, so I try to cool ot a bit with the coolness.