The number is soinfinite, that verily it would be an easier matter for me to reckon up those that have feared the same.
1735, Henry Brooke,Universal Beauty:
Whatever is finite, as finite, will admit of no comparative relation with infinity; for whatever is less thaninfinite is still infinitely distant from infinity; and lower than infinite distance the lowest or least cannot sink.
1667,John Milton, “Book IX”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC:
2012, Helen Donelan, Karen Kear, Magnus Ramage,Online Communication and Collaboration: A Reader:
Huxley's theory says that if you provideinfinite monkeys with infinite typewriters, some monkey somewhere will eventually create a masterpiece – a play by Shakespeare, a Platonic dialogue, or an economic treatise by Adam Smith.
2009, Brandon C. Look, “Symbolic Logic II, Lecture 2: Set Theory”, inwww.uky.edu/~look[1], archived fromthe original on19 June 2018:
For anyinfinite set, there is a 1-1 correspondence between it and at least one of its proper subsets. For example, there is a 1-1 correspondence between the set of natural numbers and the set of squares of natural numbers, which is a proper subset of the set of natural numbers.
(music) Capable of endless repetition; said of certain forms of thecanon, also calledperpetualfugues, constructed so that their ends lead to their beginnings.[4]
Although the term is incomparable in the precise sense, it can be comparable both in mathematics and set theory to compare different degrees of infinity, and informally to denote yet a larger thing.
Poets (and particularly hymn-writers before the 20th century) would commonly rhyme the word as though pronounced [-ɑɪnɑɪt] and church congregations still on occasion adopt that pronunciation.
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