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brieisdecent
on Dec 30, 2022
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Is infinity an odd or even number? (2011)
Shout out to my old math professor Fred Schaak who despised the word 'infinity' going so far as to ban its use from classrooms, preferring workarounds like "as n gets bigger" or "when n grows infinitely".
jasonhansel
on Dec 30, 2022
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Aristotle figured this out first: the "potentially infinite" exists, but the "actually infinite" does not.
layer8
on Dec 31, 2022
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How many prime numbers are there? Just “potentially” infinitely many?
jrootabega
on Dec 30, 2022
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It does make more sense as an adverb!
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