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