Replying to Avatar ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ

there is at least two types of infinity, infinite scalars and infinite divisibility (aka theoretical smooth), those are just the two areas i am most familiar with because of their applicability to my work (and physics, chemistry and statistical analysis)

i'd love to hear about other types infinity, but i suspect that the types of infinity are finite 😜
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Pip the WoT guy 1y ago

Actually, there are infinite types of infinity

If you take a set, and make the power set, you get a strictly bigger set, even if they are infinite.

That's known as the Cantor theorem

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor's_theorem

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

well, that is very funny... kinda applicable to how cryptography works too... 256 bits is a big finite field, but the 32 bit fields you can cut out of it are bigger, am i doing this right?