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Letter: On the never-ending question of infinity (3)

Published 4 May 2022

From Philip Welsby, Edinburgh, UK

Mathematics can’t address infinity as suggested. That infinity comes in different sizes is a nonsense because infinity isn’t a number. Any infinity that can be doubled, or broken down into a great number of smaller numbers, isn’t an infinity to begin with.

Issue no. 3385 published 7 May 2022

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