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echo: philos
to: RICHARD MEIC
from: MATH GUY
date: 1998-02-21 11:29:00
subject: `Existence Exists`

Hello Richard.
 MG>> There are (at least) two kinds of "infinite numbers" that have
 MG>> been defined. Infinite ordinals and infinite cardinals.  In each
 MG>> case, you can indeed add another number to such an infinite
 MG>> number
 RM> Demonstrate please?
1 + \omega = \omega.
Where \omega is the ordinal of the set of natural numbers.
\aleph_0 + \aleph_0 = \aleph_0
Where \aleph_0 is the cardinality of the set of natural numbers.
Math Guy
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