I dunno about proving you wrong, but the fact that you can comfortably say there is no largest natural number is kind of a belief in infinity
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Matriks404@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Infinity is a concept that we made up for the same of explaining some math. Prove me wrong.
kogasa@programming.dev 5 months ago
Jax@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
That seems more like an engine limitation than proof of infinity, to me anyway.
Sylvartas@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Quite the opposite imo, if there was a definite “largest number”, it would be an engine limitation. It is literally an actual issue with numbers representations in computers.
Now, some aspect of quantum physics really feel like IRL engine limitations though
Klear@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Infinity. Checkmate.
Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Infinity plus 1.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 5 months ago
Oh yeah??? Infinity plus 2. Get destroyed.
weker01@feddit.de 5 months ago
Infinity + infinity = 2 * infinity 3 * infinity … Infinity * infinity = infinity^2 Infinity^3 … Infinity^infinity …
If infinity is the “first” i.e. Natural infinity than those are all well defined things (Ordinals)