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exactly the same size.

The distance to the end of a circle is also infinite as there is no such end, which is a continuous loop

Can you count the sand on the sea beach? You say it is infinite

Think about the largest natural number? You will always find another number greater to it, and another number

greater to it, and so on…. So, the list of natural numbers is infinite

What will you get if you divide any number by zero?

Let us try….

= 10, = 100, = 1000, = 10000, … = 1000000, …

You notice that as the denominator reduces, the quotient increases. It can be said

that when the denominator becomes zero, the quotient becomes infinity.So, any number

divided by zero is infinity. The most important thing about infinity is – ?

where x is a real number. So, it can be understood that minus infinity is less than any

real number and infinity is greater than any real number.

Existence of Infinity Symbol:

John Wallis is actually being credited with introducing ? as a symbol for infinity in 1655. One conjecture

about why he chose this symbol is that he derived it from a Roman numeral for 1000, which was in turn derived from

the Etruscan numeral for 1000,and looked somewhat like CIO and was sometimes used to mean “many”.

Another conjecture is that he derived it from the Greek letter ? (omega), the last letter in the Greek alphabet.

Another possibility is that the symbol was chosen because it was easy to rotate the

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