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May 27, 2017
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By your post i can assume you're about 14 or 13 years old, exploring the wide imaginary world called math.

 

Other people told you you're wrong, "You cant multiply infinity" "infinity is not as number", the usual stuff. Then you defended your post because you are "visualizing the concept of infinity as the theoretical "number" of possibilities for a number or decimal, or "numerical infinity"".
 

But i think they are missing the point.
 

But that part will come later- first we need to go back.

 

30 minutes before writing this post, i came across your post. I started reading, and i got furious. "How could you write those thing?!" i thought to myself. "Is this guy out of his mind?! what is he doing?! you cant use infinity like that, you just cant!!"

 

you reminded me of a guy i came across on the internet- a fanatic guy that didnt finish highschool. That guy, seemed to appear in every math forum that mentioned his name. Whats interesting about him, is he had some interesting claims like the claim we can only infer things about math by trying those things in the real world- He came up with a really weird theory, using unprofessional, invented words to express some of his ideas- one of them, that was a direct result of his previous theorem- was that pie is not constant. The way he "proved" it was probably drawing circles in his office.

 

He had some other, weird ideas. But the most irritating thing about him, was he was never wrong. Every time someone tried to tell him why, He posted something he already posted, or explained why he's right using his broken logic.

 

I remember one of those people told him that math is not about measure, and that geometry is a mathematical thing that cant be proven using real life, but using math. The guy's response was "if this is the way of mathematics, this is not my way", and that mathematics and the "geometric reality" are different.

 

He wasnt a university student, but that didnt stop him from arguing with professors and genuises.

 

And you remind me of him in a certain way. the way you try to create your own math.

 

 

But i guess that's fine, because you are young and cant really start learning advanced mathematics. We all stumble sometimes, especially when we are thirsty for knowledge but cant get it.

 

 

Oh right, i almost forgot! i promised my part about why they're wrong-

 

What the other people that answered your question didnt understand is, the problem with your post is NOT the fact you cant multiply infinity, but another thing-

 

You think the wrole "combinations" thing applies to infinity as well. But it doesnt. And even if it did, you made some serious mistakes.

 

Here's an example: you said the number of "combinations" of numbers with all the decimal places up to the nth place is infinity*10n. But by that you just proved that the "infinity" you defined in your post, multiplied by any number, is infinity! why? what you said is, there are infinity combinations for the integer part of the numbers and 10 combinations for every decimal place, making infinity*10*10*10......(n times)*10=infinity*10n combinations. Here's another way to aproach this: Every number with n decimal places can be written as x/(10n) when x is an integer. in addition, every number that can be written as x/(10n) is a number that can be written with n decimal places. That means the number of combinations is the number of combinations for the x in my formula=infinity. Therefore infinity=infinity*10n

 

Then your broken logic somehow concluded that 10*10*10.....=infinity. I know it looks "obvious", but you cant just say it without defining it, although the only way you defined infinity was "The number of combinations for an integer". You cant just say that. You have to prove it.

 

 

 

 

Another problem with your post is YOU DIDNT DEFINE INFINITY*INFINITY. Ok, So, somehow infinity*10*10*10.... is infinity squared (Suppose you actually proved it). What the h**l does it mean? what the h**l does "infinity squared" combinations mean? is it an infinite number of squares? is it the proof god exists? is it a banana?

 

 

 

I appreciate your interest in mathematics, i really do. But you have to understand that mathematics is a precise subject. You have to prove things strictly, and make sure you define EVERYTHING.

May 27, 2017

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