Imagine you have an endless row of cookies, that's like infinity. Now imagine you have two endless rows of cookies, and still somehow they’re the same amount. That’s weird! It shows how infinite numbers can behave differently than regular numbers. Sometimes, adding more things to infinity doesn’t change it at all. Like having one row of cookies, or two, both are still infinite.
Examples
- You have an endless bag of marbles, no matter how many you take out, there are still infinite marbles left.
- You can count the number of books in a library, but not the number of sand grains on a beach, that's like uncountable infinity.
- If you keep adding numbers forever, sometimes it just keeps going and never ends, that’s what infinity feels like.
Ask a question
See also
- Why Do Some Numbers Go On Forever?
- How Infinity Works (And How It Breaks Math)?
- Why Can’t You Divide by Zero?
- What Is Infinity Actually Like?
- Why Do Prime Numbers Make Math So Special?
Discussion
Recent activity
Nothing here yet.