View Full Version : Can there be infinity + 1?


Captain_Crunch
11-17-02, 04:16 PM
This has probally been asked so many times but ill ask it again = Is there infinity +1 ? :confused:

SoLiDUS
11-17-02, 05:02 PM
Infinity + 1 ? Think about it for a moment...

Done ? Okay: seing as INFINITY is an unlimited quantity, you can't
add a value it already possesses, seem'sayin' (read: see what I'm
saying) ?

James R
11-17-02, 07:25 PM
(Should this question be in the Maths forum?)

There is a field of mathematics which deals with <b>transfinite</b> numbers. Quantities such as infinity + 1 are actually well-defined in transfinite maths. However, a few things are a bit weird. For example:

1 + infinity = infinity

but

infinity + 1

is not the same as infinity (provided "infinity" is taken to be a particular transfinite number).

Captain_Crunch
11-18-02, 02:07 PM
thank you james R, i am enlightened.
:)