LRT: The idea of adding to infinity ("you can't do it, you'd still be adding when the sun went out") has me thinking of that short story I wrote where an immortal being trapped in an endless void tries to count to infinity to pass the time and eventually runs out of named numbers
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The definition of "infinite" means that compared to it any finite number at all -- zero, one, 42, a googolplex, Graham's number -- is equivalent It's all the same as zero Your character hadn't even actually started to count
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So, like, almost all natural numbers are so large they are completely impossible to express by any means within the physical universe
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