man i was ripped as shit when i wrote that post the other day and it doesn't make any sense now lol. there's no way to subtract 1 from infinity. infinity is just a concept/thought.
Three pages of this? Really now, this is not difficult, infinity is infinity. Subtract or add to it by any amount, it is still infinite. Positive or negative. Why, coz' infinity is not a number, it is a concept. The only way you can reduce infinity to a number is if you subtract infinity with infinity, or better yet, multiply by zero. Then you'll reach another great concept that also just happens to be a number for some reason; zero.
There's no straightforward interesting answer to this, it's an impossible operation. However fun to think about: Picture a fractal, housing infinite amount of points to the degree it creates a psychedelic image. Take away a single point from this fractal.. does it reveal smaller points which were below it? Does the same point re-appear like nothing happened? Or does it create an entirely new fractal; In a sense, a big boom? What would this new fractal look like? What variables/factors would determine the specifications of this new fractal? Could two entirely different fractals be depicted as parallel to each other within the same image? Or would this new fractal overtake the one before it? What if the two merged? How would they merge? Would one get 'sucked' into the other? And the list goes on, and on.
infinity is not a number, but existance. it is not a singular item, and thus cannot be manipulated by other singular items such as 1 or 2 or any other number. infinity does not start, and does not end; like a band, it just is. so for a number to approch infinity could not be effected by any other number: imagine a ball rolling down a never ending hill. you can minipulate the hill: double its length, add 3 feet, etc. but no matter what, the ball will always be rolling towards it.
infinite minus one is still infinite. infinite is a concept, the concept is that even though one is subtracted from infinite, it is still infinite. take, for example.. the limit as x approaches infinite of (x/(x-1)) would be equal to ~1. the limit as x approaches infinite of ((x-1)/x) would be ~1.
Infinity minus one? Impossible, infinity has no set value. You can never be one away from infinity, or two, or three. Infinity has no bounds. To subtract a value from it, it's value must be defined. That's like saying what is - x - 1 We don't know, we need a reference point. With infinity there is no reference point.
infinity is not a number, it's more like a variable. Like what ^ said. Even if you could subtract 1 from infinity, it would still be infinity.
No. Because to subtract something from it, it must be defined. Infinity is boundless because it is not represented by any real number . . . Infinity is a number bigger than all other numbers, but we can make numbers as large as we possibly want (even though that quantity may not be found in our universe). One less than infinity would be the biggest number next to infinity, but infinity itself is not a number . . .
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currently seemingly to me infinity is different from a 'digit' infinity is generation infinity is expansion infinity is accumulation