What is infinity? Explain in your own words.
Infinity is the idea of something that has no ending or limit. The best way to picture it is to think of a number line that goes in both directions forever, or just go to desmos graphing calculator to put in an expression and continuously zoom out. In math, it’s used to stand in for a really big number. When divided by it the answer would be so small that it is just equal to zero.
Is infinity an important idea in your religion? Do you think that infinity in a religious setting refers to the same idea as infinity in mathematics? Why or why not?
In my religion infinity is used as an adjective to describe a quality God has. That quality would be how God isn’t bound by limitations humans have. Although infinity in math is also used to describe something with no limit, it isn’t used the same way. The reason is because its applications have rules and can give quantitative answers. For example, to show how a line acts on a graph between the interval of point a to point b. Either point can start far left of zero and go to a point far right of zero on a number line, which could be described as (-∞,0] U [0,∞).
This photo is meant to show what the line on y = 4 on a number line looks like if it keeps going in both directions. The infinity symbols on the x-axis mean that the line won’t stop at any point no matter how big the number gets, so it will just go on forever on that graph. As I said earlier, its better visualized by going to desmos graphing calculator to put in an expression and continuously zooming out.
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