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infinity
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infinity adjective boundless, ceaseless, complete, continual, continually, endless, enormous, eternal, expansively, great, huge, immense, immortal, infinite, innumerable, interminable, perfect, perpetual, unbounded, unceasing, undeterminable, uninterrupted, unlimited
See also: perpetuity
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Mathematicians today refer to actual infinity as an uncountable set of numbers such as the number of points existing on a line at the same time, while a potential infinity is an endless sequence that unfolds consecutively over time.
Idea of infinity stretched back to third century B.C by Asian News International
We could actually compute the number but we are only interested in trying to conceptualize how large potential infinity could be.
Dabbling in Infinity by Joe Pagano / Mathematics community
 
 
 
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