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Old 27-05-2008, 10:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Doug View Post
Which comes back to the only definition of infinity I ever heard:
'Undefinable'

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Doug
An apt description considering that mathematicians struggled with the concept of infinitely in set theory in the late 19th century.

For example the set natural of natural numbers and set of integers are infinite sets, yet the set of integers contains twice as many numbers.

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