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Infinity - Online Essay

Infinity

The infinity symbol represents something with no limit. Infinity reaches back to the ancient Greek civilization. The term infinity come from the Latin word infinitas meaning unboundedness. In math they treat infinity as if it were a real number, but not in the sorts of a real number. During the late nineteen and early twenty centuries Greg Cantor came up with a theory about infinity stating that there are infinite sets of different sizes called cardinalities. In other words the set of integers in accountably infinite while the set of real numbers is unaccountably infinite. The ancient Indians and Greeks had various ideas about infinity, but couldn't formalize it in a mathematical way so ...

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Added: 11/6/2012 11:49:15 AM
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