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People say that infinity doesn't have a limit because that is the definition of the word infinity. This term is used in the fields of mathematics and of the sciences particularly physics.

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How do you say infinity in french?

Infantutay


How does rational numbers is deeper than irrational numbers?

I don't understand what you mean by deeper, but the cardinality of irrational numbers, Aleph-One, is greater than the cardinality of rationals, Aleph-Null. That is to say, there are more irrational numbers than rationals. [If you treat infinity as a number, there are infinity to the power of infinity irrational numbers compared with "just infinity" for rationals.]


What exactly is infinity?

Answer: Infinity isn't exactly anything. When one speaks of infinity, they are referring to an ultimate, i.e. infinitely large is the largest, infinitely small is the smallest, continuing to infinity is never ending, etc. There is no real way to conceptualize infinity since by the mere fact that by thinking of something as being, say, infinitely big, I can immediately think of something bigger by adding one to it, therefore that initial thing wasn't infinitely big to begin with.The way I conceptualize infinity is in the following way. If there is a finite probability that an event can happen, say the classic monkey writing Shakespeare thought experiment, then given an infinite amount of time, that event will happen, not might happen, but will happen. If that monkey has a 1 in 1010000000000000 chance of replicating Shakespeare, then not only will that monkey do it if you give it an infinite amount of time, it will do it an infinite number of times.Answer: Since you put the question in math (or accepted the suggested category): In Math, infinity has different meanings in different context.In set theory, it means, informally, that if you count the elements of a set, you will never reach an end. Formally, infinity can be defined in different ways; for example, an infinite set is one that can be put into a one-to-one correspondence with one of its proper subsets. (It has proper subsets that are "just as big" as the entire set.)In calculus, it means that an amount has a tendency to go beyond any fixed limit. You might also use the word "unbounded" in this context.All in all, infinity is not a number. It's a term meaning 'going on and on'.


How many years dose it take for a person to say all the numbers in the math way pi?

infinity, the pi number keeps going on to infinity


What is the number right before infinity?

There is no number right before infinity. One could say that the number before infinity is "infinity minus one", but you cannot use normal subtraction with infinity. Infinity - 1 is still mathematically defined as infinity, as is Infinity + 1. Perhaps the question is referring to the largest number with its own name (other than infinity, which, as previously stated, is not technically a number). A googol is often cited as this number. A googol is defined to be a 1 with a hundred zeroes after it. Alternatively, a googolplex might qualify for the title of largest number with its own name, being a 1 with a googol zeroes after it. A couple of quick side notes are in order here: There are not a googolplex atoms in the visible universe. It is an extremely big number. The search engine company Google named their company after a googol, because of vast amount of information that they process and organize.