The answer is 12. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

You should change that to 42, since evidently that's the answer to everything.

(December 2, 2017 at 12:30 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:

(December 2, 2017 at 11:34 am)Alex K Wrote: If you are talking cardinality (sizes of sets) then you can ask how big is a union of two disjoint infinite sets- then the answer is infinity. But then there is a whole hierarchy of infinities: the union of two countable infinite sets is again countable infinite. The union of a countably infinite set and an uncountably infinite one is again uncountably infinite.

I dare you to count out a countably infinite set. Go head, 1..2...3...4...

No problemo. I'll get back to you when I'm done.

It's not a number, they can't be added, so infinity + infinity is still infinity.

(December 2, 2017 at 5:40 pm)Hammy Wrote: It's not a number, they can't be added, so infinity + infinity is still infinity.

Well, I found this off of Google:

"Even though infinity is not a number, it is possible for one infinite set to contain more things than another infinite set. Mathematicians divide infinite sets into two categories, countable and uncountable sets. In a countably infinite set you can 'number' the things you are counting."

So yeah.

(December 2, 2017 at 6:49 am)LastPoet Wrote: Now that we established that, is 1.99999.... = 2 ?

*runs off*

Yes, it is, for the same reason that .99999.... = 1

Also, 2 + 2 = 5 for sufficiently large values of 2.

(December 2, 2017 at 6:05 pm)ƵenKlassen Wrote:

(December 2, 2017 at 5:40 pm)Hammy Wrote: It's not a number, they can't be added, so infinity + infinity is still infinity.

Well, I found this off of Google:

"Even though infinity is not a number, it is possible for one infinite set to contain more things than another infinite set. Mathematicians divide infinite sets into two categories, countable and uncountable sets. In a countably infinite set you can 'number' the things you are counting."

So yeah.

I explain how this works in my posts above

Yeah, like others have said, infinity is not a number, so operators like the addition operator does not work on infinity in the same way it works on numbers.

(December 2, 2017 at 6:05 pm)ƵenKlassen Wrote:

(December 2, 2017 at 5:40 pm)Hammy Wrote: It's not a number, they can't be added, so infinity + infinity is still infinity.

Well, I found this off of Google:

"Even though infinity is not a number, it is possible for one infinite set to contain more things than another infinite set. Mathematicians divide infinite sets into two categories, countable and uncountable sets. In a countably infinite set you can 'number' the things you are counting."

So yeah.

That's referring to infinite sets of finite numbers. Not infinity + infinity.

You're talking about set theory there, that's not what your question in the OP was.

(December 3, 2017 at 8:36 am)Hammy Wrote:

(December 2, 2017 at 6:05 pm)ƵenKlassen Wrote: Well, I found this off of Google:

"Even though infinity is not a number, it is possible for one infinite set to contain more things than another infinite set. Mathematicians divide infinite sets into two categories, countable and uncountable sets. In a countably infinite set you can 'number' the things you are counting."

So yeah.

That's referring to infinite sets of finite numbers. Not infinity + infinity.

You're talking about set theory there, that's not what your question in the OP was.

In a countably infinite set, the elements in it can be arranged in an infinite list (ordered sequence of terms).  Thus, any countably infinite set, say S, has the same cardinality as the set of positive integers (let's call it P), which contains an infinite number of elements, and so, we can say that there is a 1-1 correspondence between S and P: there is a function, say g, that maps P to S such that, for every element (image) b in S, there exists an element (pre-image) a in P such that g(a)=b (onto function); and, for any two elements x and y in P with x does not equal y, it follows that g(x) does not equal g(y) (one to one function).  Hence, this one to one correspondence between sets is known as a bijection (a function that is both 1-1 and onto).  Regarding uncountable sets, no bijection exists, and so, the elements in an uncountable set cannot be arranged into an infinite list.