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Old 03 April 2007, 09:43 PM
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Question What is the highest number in the world,and is it odd or even?

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Old 03 April 2007, 09:45 PM
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Whatever it is, you can always add one to it

My maths teacher gave up. He kept trying to tell me infinity was the highest number, I always asked so what about infinity plus 1
Old 03 April 2007, 09:52 PM
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What about infinity to the power of infinity. Plus one.
Old 03 April 2007, 10:09 PM
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There are infinitely more irrational numbers than rational ones.
Old 03 April 2007, 10:20 PM
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Originally Posted by NotoriousREV
What about infinity to the power of infinity. Plus one.
But if you took a number which was two less than infinity to the power of infinity and added 5 that would be higher?

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Old 03 April 2007, 10:22 PM
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You can't do arithmetical operations on infinity. It's bloody well infinite.
Old 03 April 2007, 10:32 PM
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You can quantify infinity.

Its an 8 on its side
Old 03 April 2007, 10:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Jay m A
You can quantify infinity.

Its an 8 on its side
So is a fat woman's ****, but I don't wish to multiply that, or even add to it.
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I would add a big One to a fat womens *** and then subtract it, add it, subtract it, add it, subtract it, etc...until I finally reached 0

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Old 03 April 2007, 11:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Bubba po
You can't do arithmetical operations on infinity. It's bloody well infinite.

What about infinity divided by infinity?
Old 04 April 2007, 12:27 AM
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Easy peasy - the answer is infinity
Old 04 April 2007, 12:35 AM
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Originally Posted by fast bloke
What about infinity divided by infinity?
It depends on which infinities you are dividing. Some infinities are larger than others.

For example the number of integers is infinite, and also the number of odd integers is infinite. But there are only half as many odd numbers as there are integers. So:

number of integers (infinite) / number of odd numbers (infinite) = 2
Old 04 April 2007, 01:00 AM
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Originally Posted by oblong
I would add a big One to a fat womens *** and then subtract it, add it, subtract it, add it, subtract it, etc...until I finally reached 0






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Old 04 April 2007, 08:19 AM
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The answer is 20. You run out of fingers/toes.

Unless you're some weirdo with 6 fingers on one hand or something.
Old 04 April 2007, 08:30 AM
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Stop!

Infinity isn't a number.

Carry on.
Old 04 April 2007, 09:14 AM
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The highest number that I know of that has a real name is a googolplex

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Old 04 April 2007, 09:19 AM
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what about two googolplex? Is that not a number just like two hundred or two thousand (only a bit bigger obviously)
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Originally Posted by Dracoro
The answer is 20. You run out of fingers/toes.

Unless you're some weirdo with 6 fingers on one hand or something.
Redefine what the fingers/toes mean and you can count up to 9999
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If infinity is eight on it's side, is a 9 on it's side even bigger?
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Originally Posted by SWRTWannabe
If infinity is eight on it's side, is a 9 on it's side even bigger?
Isn't that a partial deriviative in calculus?
Old 04 April 2007, 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by fast bloke
What about infinity divided by infinity?
Surely it is one!

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Old 04 April 2007, 10:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Bubba po
There are infinitely more irrational numbers than rational ones.
Does that mean numbers are female then
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