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Aren’t there numbers past (plus/minus) infinity? Last I hear there’s some omega stuff (for denoting numbers “past infinity”) and it’s not even the usual alpha-beta-omega flavour.

Come to think of it, is there even a notation for “the last possible number” in math? aka something that you just can’t tack “+1” at the end of to make a new number?

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What you’re probably thinking of is Ordinal numbers.

As for your second question, I don’t think any “last number” could exist unless we explicitly declared one. And even then… I’m not sure what utility there would be in declaring a “last number”.

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I mean, whoever gets to declare a “last number” that works certainly will get some bragging rights. After all, you can only ever declare one.

…Right?

(I know math is very weird)

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Which of the infinities? There are many, many :D

The smallest infinity is the size of the natural numbers. That infinty, Aleph zero, is smaller than the infinity of the real numbers, Aleph one. “etc.”

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_number

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Which of the infinities? There are many, many :D

Oh no! Please don’t tell me there are infinity infinities!

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