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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".


Aristotle figured this out first: the "potentially infinite" exists, but the "actually infinite" does not.


How many prime numbers are there? Just “potentially” infinitely many?


It does make more sense as an adverb!




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