▲ 287 ▼ EDIT: I THINK I STAND CORRECTED (lemmy.zip) submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by balderdash9@lemmy.zip to c/memes@lemmy.world 218 comments fedilink hide all child comments I considered deleting the post, but this seems more cowardly than just admitting I was wrong. But TIL something!
[–] Kethal@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* The hyperreals are a formal treatment of infinite numbers. It still doesn't let people use infinity as a number in the way that posts like this suggest, but they're interesting nonetheless. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreal_number permalink fedilink source parent
