Whats Infinity Minus one?

Question

if infinity is an uncountable number then what is one number before it?
My wife says its equally uncountable, but if that was the case then it would continue until such a point as you could identify where inifinty was. so what is the number before infinity?

wowzers you lot take your answering seriously, for me infinity is simply a number i cant count to, for example you might not know what comes after 1000 which means 1001 is a number you cant count to it may as well be infinity, and then you can argue you could learn 1001 but then your infinite number would simply increase with your own knowledge.

anyway chill people it was a silly question for fun,

Answer 1

Oh Dear! lots of dodgy maths out there!
Welcome to Mr Cantor's infinity paradise hotel!
We got infinite rooms, but they're all full just now.
Don't worry!.. we'll squeeze you in!..I'll just get every guest to move one room along
Now you can get in room1
Hey there's an infinite stretch limo arrived with an infinite number of guests..no probs just get all our guests to move from room n to 2n!
Yes infinity is an uncountable number, but you can still do mathematical ops with it
Hope that helps, you can work out the rest foor yourselves. PS always agree with your wife- she's right even when she's wrong-now that's a true paradox

Answer 2

Infinity is NOT a number! Its amazing how many people believe it is a number.
Therefore, infinity - 1 is not a valid mathematical expression.

It *is* valid to ask the following question, however:
If we have an infinite set X, and remove one element, what happens to the size? (For example, let X = {0,1,2,..} and remove the 0.
And the answer is nothing, by definition.
Two sets have the same size if you can match up the elements one by one. So we match 0->1, 1->2, 2->3, ..
Therefore the sets have equal size.
If you matched up 1->1, 2->2, 3->3, .., that doesn't prove the sets are of different size. All you need to do is find *one* matching, and that does it.

Its all a matter of definition. And thats how it is defined.

Answer 3

in case you're working with limits, it relies upon on the expression. lim (n->4) a million/(x-4) - a million/(x-4) = 0, working example, yet lim (n->a million) 2/(x-a million)-a million/(x-a million) = infinity. observe that a limiteless set has the comparable form of factors as an area of itself. So subsequently the infinity of all useful integers minus the infinity of all useful integers extra desirable than 10 is a 10-ingredient set, however the infinity of all integers minus the infinity of all odd integers is infinite: the set of all even integers. In Conway's surreal numbers, w - w = 0, the place w is omega, the 1st transfinite variety after the organic numbers. So the respond could be 0, even nevertheless it quite is the different variety, or perhaps infinity.

Answer 4

Infinity Minus One is a Hard Rock/Metal group from Boston that combines influences including Rock, Metal, Punk, Funk.

I guess thats not what your asking though.

Infinity Minus One - An Irrational Number That Only Has A Conventional Meaning In Improbability Physics

Answer 5

I though of that, so i asked that question to AQA in a text message. Bearing in mind that they are a company that are law bound to give you the truthful answer (however hard the question may be) this is what AQA told me the answer was:

The answer to that is not just a number in its simplist form, the answer in a singular number does not exist. The answer in it's most simple form is an algebric expression. When n = infinitity, the answer is 'n-1'

Basically, according to AQA, the answer to 'What is infinity minus 1 is 'n-1'

Answer 6

176. Any higher than this is infinity.

Actually infinity is not an actual number but a mathematical concept like "add" or "greater than". 1% of infinity is still infinite.

Answer 7

infinity is whenever you feel like stopping the counting so i would say googol that means 1 followed by one hundred zeros i use that one because i havent heard of anyone counting that high they usually get to infinity first cause infinity is actually 1 more than the highest you can count

Answer 8

Hello,

This is one of those self defeating questions, its more a philosophical question more like how many angles can you fit on the head of a pin. I do understand your point and its a logical arguement too but frankly I DONT think its possible to answer or know the result.

Its the kind of question that if you let it get to you, has the capacity to drive to insane quite literally, you could tye your brain in knots try to reach a conclusion.

**I dont mean to be rude about this but frankly who cares what the result of infinity minus one is? What relevance does it have to ordinary daily life?? Sorry! its just impossible to answer and lifes far to short to be worry about such a question.

**Why, NOT ask a cosmologist and astronomer or a computer scientist. My cousin could probably answer this one he's a lecturer in nuclear physics, he's into string theory & atomic particles & matter & such like. Good question for him. Prof Peter Ratoff at manchester university UK if your serious?

IR

Answer 9

oh

Answer 10

infinity isnt a number, its a state. A number is something with value. Infinity is like heavy, or invisible, its just something that is!