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What is infinity - 1?

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This is a hard concept to understand, since infinity is not a definite number. It can keep carrying on forever, which makes it a surreal number.

However, 1 can be measured by infinity as well, due to the never ending amount of decimal places, for example, 1 x 10^-6 [0.000001], 1 x 10^-12 [0.000000000001] and so on.

So, since it is impossible to determine the boundary of infinity, for 1 and for infinity itself, it is most agreed that the result will still be infinity, for whatever sum or subtraction you do, excluding infinity - infinity (0).

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What is the value of infinite?

1 time infinity equals infinity. Infinite divided by infinite equals 1. There's your answer. * * * * * Except that it is not true. 1 times infinity is, indeed, infinity. But infinity divided by infinity need not be 1. See for example, the paradox of Hibert's Hotel at the attached link.


Does infinity have a limit?

No. That is why it is called "infinity". Infinity is actually not an accepted numerical value in calculus. It is rather a concept. For instance, (infinity) - 1 googleplex = infinity


What is 1 minus infinity?

Any specific number minus infinity is -∞ Note if you try to subtract infinity from infinity, the answer is undefined - because infinity is a "cardinality" rather than a specific number.


What is the number after infinity?

Infinity is as big as you can get, so there is no number after it.There is also a "negative infinity" going the other way, so the total number of integers could be considered as two infinity (2 x ∞), or two ∞ plus 1 if you include zero. But usually infinity is defined to include the entire set of integers.* * * * *Except that infinity plus infinity, or even infinity times infinity is still infinity. However, infinity to the power of infinity is a higher level of infinity (Aleph1 rather than Aleph0). And if that does not do your head in, there is a lot more to the mathematics of infinities.


Is infinity equal to minus 1?

technically, infinity is not a value and therefore cannot be defined as minus 1. There is a notion that infinity does not actually exist but only a human myth applied to those values larger than the human can calculate eg the size of the universe. Quoting Hawkins phrase "the universe stretches on infinitely" shows that infinity is not minus one. Therefore, infinity is not equal to minus 1.

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what is infinity + 1?

it just equal infinity


Is infinity divided by infinity equal 1?

Firstly we don't know infinity value. If you divide any number by infinity then answer will be zero. Example is divide 100/3 by infinity ( let infinity is equal to 1/0). Then answer is 100/3/1/0 you will get zero.


What is the answer of 1 divided by infinity?

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What is the biggest fraction?

Infinity-1/infinity * * * * * Infinity is not a number and division by infinity is not defined. Apart from which, if it were permitted, 1/infinity would be the smallest fraction! Just as there is no largest number, there is no biggest fraction.


How much numbers are in infinity?

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