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by hinkley 379 days ago
There is no eight. This is something I’ve heard actual mathematicians complain about to other actual mathematicians: the non math public misunderstands infinite series as “imagine a number so big you can’t fathom it and add 1 more number to it. That’s not how things work.

Going as far as you can imagine and a little farther is an infinitesimal of the real infinite.