2007-10-14 22:32:26 · 32 answers · asked by monkeynuts 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
It depends how big the steps are.
If you're counting "1,2,3,4, .... ,infinity" it'll take forever.
If you're counting "1, 1000000, 2000000, ... ,infinity" it'll take forever.
If you're counting "1, infinity" it'll take a second or two.
2007-10-15 00:34:15 · answer #1 · answered by Bob R 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It could be argued that you cannot count to infinity because infinity is not a number. Yes, it would take a very long time to count very, very, very large numbers but that is not the point and it is not your question. I think to be mathematically consistent we would have to say it is not defined.
2007-10-15 22:08:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will take anything from 1 second to infinity.
2007-10-14 22:42:40 · answer #3 · answered by Optimist E 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps a second longer than it would take to count to infinity minus 1. :-)
Or you could get an infinite number of friends to help you and working in parallel you'd be done in no time. It would just be very noisy as everyone blurted out their assigned number at once. :-)
I think you know the real answer.
2007-10-14 22:38:12 · answer #4 · answered by Puzzling 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Since the range of numbers from 1 to infinity (inclusive) is infinitely large, it would take you an infinite amount of time to complete the task.
I wouldn't bother trying if I were you
2007-10-15 01:21:54 · answer #5 · answered by general_ego 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
infinity. county to infinity would be counting to a non-stop so u will take forever.
2007-10-14 23:21:33 · answer #6 · answered by N!tsuj 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An infinate length of time...impossible
2007-10-14 22:48:18 · answer #7 · answered by Mr Tripod 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've heard that that there is a new supercomputer called Marvin (he's a bit paranoid yer know), that, once completed, can count to infinity.
Unfortunately they chose Vista as the operating system, so he'll take till inifinity to boot up... ;-)
2007-10-15 07:38:14 · answer #8 · answered by Dave B 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
tricky tricky...being that infinity is, well, infinite...you would never stop counting. you could count for the rest of your life, and would never hit infinity.
2007-10-14 22:42:10 · answer #9 · answered by rhay ♥ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Silly question.... Infinity is not an integer at all... It is an indeterminate number... U CANNOT COUNT UPTO \infty
2007-10-14 22:37:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋