2006-12-17 07:15:48 · 15 answers · asked by Josh 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
By go on forever, do you mean infinite? Then I would say yes.
2006-12-17 07:19:36 · answer #1 · answered by Brian 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
numbers go on forever and ever, but it is a hard concept for the human mind to grasp. i think like this. imagine a room with four regular walls all blank a perfectly flat. now, imagine someone writing in 12 size font a 1 then filling the walls with zero's. then you read the whole wall of numbers and when you get to the bottom, dont stop reading and go back to the top, ignore the zero and keep going as if you never stopped. do this forever and ever and you will still never reach the end, will you? therefore you can understand that numbers go on forever and ever.
2006-12-17 07:22:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no such thing as "the highest number", if that's what you mean. The sequence "1, 2, 3, 4,..." has no limit to it. If you name any number, no matter how high, you can always add 1 to that number and get a bigger number. So numbers go on to infinity.
Some people mistakenly say that "infinity" is the "highest number". "Infinity" is not a number though, since the laws of math don't really apply to it. It's more of a concept.
2006-12-17 07:24:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes they do. This is because a number can be explained in either word form or number form. For example, i can always find a bigger number than someone else could. 100, 1,000, 1,000,000,000,000, now someone says ten trillion, ten triollion to the power of a trillion, 1 followed by a billion trillion zeros, etc. Also you may do (infinite), which means infinite (duh lol). the numbers can keep getting bigger. The only limit a number realy has is your own imagination.
2006-12-17 07:24:21 · answer #4 · answered by monomat99 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes
2006-12-17 07:22:45 · answer #5 · answered by jafman2000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it depends on your question .. there are number are decreasing and increasing , it depends in your mathematical questions ,such as -2,-1,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 so on like that . but normal numbers it go on forever like money .. from 100 to 1000 to 10000 ... until you become a millionaire ;) ..
2006-12-17 07:41:52 · answer #6 · answered by moon me 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes theres always a number smaller and larger than the one u have.
2006-12-17 07:21:52 · answer #7 · answered by Leah 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes there is an infinite range on numbers.
2006-12-17 09:39:37 · answer #8 · answered by abcde12345 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, in fact they do. want to here something insane...
we can prove that there are the same amount of even natural numbers (2,4,6,8,10,...) as there are natural numbers that are divisible by 1000000000000. that's how many numbers there are :D
ps. natural numbers are: 1,2,3,4,... on and on and on and on.
2006-12-17 07:26:43 · answer #9 · answered by Napper 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yup. They can get infinitely large, infinitely small, infinitely close to zero- the possibilities are endless.
2006-12-17 07:20:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋