So, in other words, he went to infinity...and beyond?
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Just to be clear, I have no goddamn idea what you nerds are talking about.
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N3rd sh1t!

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Hence you just roll with paradoxical ideas like n +1 is higher than n, as is 2n or n^2, even though n supposedly is ∞
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It comes from the idea of treating the infinitesimal as actually a thing, like there really is such a thing as "infinitesimally more than 4" (4+ε) and therefore you can take the reciprocal of "infinitesimally more than 4" and get "1/4+infinity"
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It's all a matter of "I know we can't, but let's pretend that we can and see what happens". The most annoying thing about that is that it keeps on working and having uses! "You can't take the square root of a negative number" gives us complex numbers, which are a useful tool.
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Yeah - it's the kind of thing where the lingo can be a little bit misleading: ∞ is not a real number, in the sense that it's not a member of the set R. Is it a number? Sure - but you have to use it in the fields it belongs in, you can't pretend they're the reals.
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In a similar way that you can say that complex numbers are real, and they're numbers, but not "real numbers." Or at least, they're as real as any other number is.
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