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Is infinity real or just mathematical?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Is There an Infinite Number of Steps Between You and Your House?

When your intuition is confronted with data, that's when you learn something. The greeks actually do have records thinking about infinity. But the earliest records we have about infinity go back to 600 b c e. If there's an infinite number of steps between you and your house, how do you ever get there? You can't, but of course you do.

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