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the only number that swallows every number and stays exactly as hungry.

means Having no boundary, end, or limit — going on forever in size, quantity, or extent.

from From Latin infinitus, which is simply finitus ("finished, bounded, limited") with the negating prefix in- bolted on the front — literally "not finished." Finitus comes from finis, "end, boundary, limit" (the same finis that ends Latin films and gives us finish, final, and finite). So infinite is, at its root, a refusal: the un-ended, the thing that never reaches its boundary stone. It entered English through Old French in the medieval period.

unequal sizes
Some infinities are provably bigger than others.
hotel trick
A full infinite hotel always has more room.
symbol age
The lemniscate sign dates to 1655, John Wallis.
not a number
You cannot reach it by counting forever.
banned division
Dividing by it gives zero, not infinity.
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