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2006-12-24 19:41:49 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Mathematics

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When they run out of cars to sell in their dealership.

2006-12-28 03:50:04 · answer #1 · answered by -J- 3 · 0 1

OK, lets drive your math teacher nutz.

Take a strip of paper about ten inches long and an inch wide. Twist it once and tape the ends together. You have an infinite loop with only one side and one edge. Suppose that strip of paper represents a number line. It is a number line that goes on an infinite distance because it has no end. Now, draw a single dot on the strip. From that dot trace a line down the strip of paper. You will be able to trace that line from that point, right back to that point without crossing over the piece of paper.

Infinity ends where it began.

You can play the same game by taking the strip of paper and on one side draw a positive number line starting at zero, and on the other side, a negative number line starting at zero. Twist the paper only once, and tape it together at the zero points. Then trace your line. You will discover that which ever way you go, you end right back at zero.

You can make the following argument: If the strip has a positive and negative number line, connected at zero, each continuing an infinite distance, and any line drawn upon that strip ends at it's beginning, then the end of infinity is the start of infinity.

Fun logic. Won't pass you in math, but will confuse the heck out of most math teachers.

2006-12-25 08:00:27 · answer #2 · answered by ♥chelley♥ 4 · 0 1

It depends on how you represent this "infinity". Consider the closed interval [ 0, 1 ]. There are infinitely many points in this interval ( in fact aleph_1 points ), yet it ends at 0 and 1.

On the other hand, the real line also has aleph_1 points, but it doesn't have a "real end".

There are infinitely many "infinitys", and many ways to represent each. Where it "ends" depends upon which representation you are using.

2006-12-25 03:54:03 · answer #3 · answered by AnyMouse 3 · 0 0

The word infinity comes from the Latin infinitas or "unboundedness." It refers to several distinct concepts (usually linked to the idea of "without end" or "bigger than the biggest thing you can think of") which arise in philosophy, mathematics, theology and everyday life.

Sometimes infinity can cause extremly complex math such as..
(let a be infinty)
a/a=?
0 X a =?
0X-a=?
a^0=?
a-a=?
1^a=?
Infinity is so large,that even googols,googolplexes,and even Graham's number,the largest real number mathematicians have a use for.AND EVEN BIGGER THAN THE GOOGOLPLEXTH Ackermann number!

There are many definitions for infinity.The most common 1 is 1+1+1...+1,where the number of 1s are unlimited.

Happy now?

2006-12-25 01:23:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Infinity never ends. That is the definition of infinity.

2006-12-25 06:10:04 · answer #5 · answered by mu_do_in 3 · 0 1

The meaning of infinity is endless. It doesnt have an end

2006-12-24 20:14:00 · answer #6 · answered by Shahzadi 3 · 1 1

There's nothing as 'end of infinity' in maths. It's not a curve which will end somewhere. it's a value. it has a place, not an end.
if u still like answer, infinity ends at infinity.

2006-12-24 19:47:26 · answer #7 · answered by ravish2006 6 · 0 2

Wow,... it's infinity how is it supposed to end??? look at the symbol the end touches the start so as soon as it ends your at the start and here it goes again

2006-12-24 19:51:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

If it ends, it isn't infinity. There is no such thing as an end for infinity.

2006-12-24 21:56:09 · answer #9 · answered by PIPI B 4 · 0 1

What ever you are thinking infinity is more than that.

2006-12-25 05:37:01 · answer #10 · answered by aminnyus 2 · 0 1

both end of the universe are the end of infinity
if you are measure length

2006-12-24 20:23:00 · answer #11 · answered by kimht 6 · 0 1

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