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there are more big numbers than small numbers
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the banana is great but the skin is greater
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In mathematics, the set of all integers or real numbers is infinite, meaning there is no "biggest" number. While we can imagine larger numbers like a googolplex, there are an infinite amount of numbers between 0 and 1, as well as an infinite amount of large numbers. Therefore, technically, neither set is larger; they are both countably infinite.

But mathematics is only a skin deep pseudoscience.
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>>16968752
its a hollow victory
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>>16968756
ok, let's say you think 100 is the biggest number.
There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1, then 1 and 2, etc up until 100.
But then there are more infinite numbers between 100 and 101, 101 and 102, etc therefore there are more bigger numbers than smaller numbers.
>>16968752
Touching the skin of a banana is really disgusting. I saw a video about all the chemicals that go on it, it wasn't even a video I truly believed, but since that day I don't want to touch banana's skin. The irony is that I eat tomatoes without peeling them which is much worse and more disgusting. Maybe this is why I don't understand infinity
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Lust inducing image. Irrelevant, time wasting question.
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>>16968745
Accurate because there are more transfinite ordinals (big numbers) than natural numbers (small numbers)
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>>16968745
Ok then. List an infinite amount of big numbers.
Oh no! It can fit in perfect correspondence with this infinite list of small numbers (generated by taking root 2 to the next nonzero digit at each step) and therefore they have the same cardinality.

Plus my list of small numbers didn't include 7. So small numbers are bigger by infinity + 1.
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>>16968745
Would you say that the number of big numbers is bigger than all the numbers of small numbers combined into a single big number?



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