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 11 months ago
Infinity is a concept that we made up for the same of explaining some math. Prove me wrong.
kogasa@programming.dev 11 months ago
Jax@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
That seems more like an engine limitation than proof of infinity, to me anyway.
Sylvartas@lemmy.world 11 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 11 months ago
Infinity. Checkmate.
Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Infinity plus 1.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 11 months ago
Oh yeah??? Infinity plus 2. Get destroyed.
weker01@feddit.de 11 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)