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Infinite
This remains for me one of the weirdest things that defies my ideas about math being prior to science.
Title text: This remains for me one of the weirdest things that defies my ideas about math being prior to science.

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God, can you explain infinities to me?
You have to distinguish "potential infinite" from "actual infinite." you can count as high as you want but there's not a meaningful way to talk about "the set of all counting numbers."
They
Don't exist.
But a bunch of stuff in calculus only works if you assume actual infinities are real.
What in the hell! I am freaking out, man. I am freaking out!
What.
No way.
Show me.
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