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Posted 2002-08-20, 10:01 AM in reply to BMS-IcE-'s post "Easy math question...."
How about this then?
There are infinitely many prime numbers, but there are "more" regular numbers. How can there be more of anything when there's an infinite amount?

For instance, each time you double some numbers, say 2222*2=4444, there's at least one prime number between them. What about the other numbers? Inf+1 would still be Inf, but we KNOW that there are more normal numbers. So why doesn't Inf+1 work?
"Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and is widely regarded as the most important innovator in scientific and technical computing today." - Stephen Wolfram

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