Imagine you have a never-ending bag of marbles, that’s like infinite numbers. Now, say there are two bags: one with marbles and one with jellybeans. If they’re both never-ending, it might seem like they have the same amount. But what if one bag has more marbles than jellybeans even when both are infinite? That means some infinities are bigger than others, and that’s pretty wild!
Examples
- You can match every jellybean in an infinite bag with a marble from another infinite bag, but you might still have more jellybeans than marbles if the bags are different sizes.
- There’s an infinity of whole numbers (1, 2, 3…), but there’s also a bigger infinity of decimals (0.1, 0.23, 0.45678…).
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See also
- Why Do Numbers Never End?
- Why Do Infinite Numbers Exist?
- Why Do Some Numbers Go On Forever?
- Why Is the Number Pi Infinite?
- Why Do Some Numbers Look Like Infinity?