HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoA number chosen truly at random will have infinite digitsmessage-squaremessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down134
arrow-up1-19arrow-down1message-squareA number chosen truly at random will have infinite digitsHonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square32fedilink
minus-squareCrul@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·9 months agoI think you’re confusing “arbitrarily large” with “infinitely large”. See Wikipedia Arbitrarily large vs. (…) infinitely large Furthermore, “arbitrarily large” also does not mean “infinitely large”. For example, although prime numbers can be arbitrarily large, an infinitely large prime number does not exist—since all prime numbers (as well as all other integers) are finite.
I think you’re confusing “arbitrarily large” with “infinitely large”. See Wikipedia Arbitrarily large vs. (…) infinitely large