Is infinity an odd or even number? (2011)
math.stackexchange.com
Is infinity an odd or even number? (2011)
1–10 of 398 posts
Re: Is infinity an odd or even number? (2011)
#2Yes
Re: Is infinity an odd or even number? (2011)
#3Infinity is not a number. If you want to extend even/odd to it, you can pick whatever you want.
Re: Is infinity an odd or even number? (2011)
#4Infinity is not a number. If you want to extend even/odd to it, you can pick whatever you want.
I suggest you reread the OP and ask questions, because you seem to have overlooked some of the ideas explained therein, such as transfinite ordinals.
Re: Is infinity an odd or even number? (2011)
#5No
Re: Is infinity an odd or even number? (2011)
#6No
[dead]
Re: Is infinity an odd or even number? (2011)
#7Yes|no
Re: Is infinity an odd or even number? (2011)
#8In IEC 60559* floating-point arithmetic, pow(-1, ∞) is 1.
This is because all large binary and decimal floating-point numbers are even, and thus so is infinity.
*this is the successor standard to ieee-754 and shares text in recent revisions, though I don't have direct access on this phone. You can find the specific pow specification in Annex F of the C99 standard.
Re: Is infinity an odd or even number? (2011)
#9I want to know if there are more decimal numbers between 0 and 1 than there are integers between 0 and infinity.
Re: Is infinity an odd or even number? (2011)
#10 In my experience with children, one of the easiest-to-grasp concepts of infinity is provided by the transfinite ordinals, since it can be viewed as a continuation of the usual counting manner of children, but proceeding into the transfinite:
1,2,3,⋯,ω,ω+1,ω+2,⋯,ω+ω=ω⋅2,ω⋅2+1,⋯,ω⋅3,⋯,ω2,ω2+1,⋯,ω2+ω,⋯⋯
Presumably this person has no experience with 6 year olds? This explanation is horrendous haha