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What is most interesting about infinity?
There are a lot of interesting things about infinity. First, there is the concept itself, and how it has been explored by mathematicians throughout time. Infinity was originally an idea meant to explain what happens when you divide 1/2 or 3/4 into smaller pieces infinitely many times. It turns out that no matter how small you go with this process, there will always be a remainder left over.
In this sense, infinity is a concept meant to describe the nature of reality. It has been thoroughly explored by philosophers and mathematicians, but perhaps there are more interesting aspects of it that have not yet been discovered.
For example, what really is infinity? There are different definitions of it depending on how you look at it. One person may say that there are an infinite number of numbers in a decimal system, but another can easily argue that there aren't because the numbers go up only so far before repeating.
Also, in mathematics the nature of infinity is different than it is in philosophy. In math they say that there are infinite numbers because you can add one to any number infinitely many times and get a new number.
However, in philosophy we make the argument that there is a difference between actually having infinity and being infinite. For example, if you cut an object into pieces infinitely many times, you would still have something left over after each time.
In math, infinity is a property of quantities. For example the infinite sequence 2, 4, 8…" has value infinite because it goes on forever.