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• CommentRowNumber1.
• CommentAuthorTobyBartels
• CommentTimeFeb 10th 2020

Put some content here, as a disambiguation page.

1. It doesn’t really matter, but I’m not convinced by the “common theme” sentence… . Surely the point is more like that it describes something which cannot be counted?

• CommentRowNumber3.
• CommentAuthorTobyBartels
• CommentTimeFeb 11th 2020
• (edited Feb 11th 2020)

Mostly it means something larger than every natural number, although not always. I put a sentence saying that and noting a couple of exceptions (one each way). You could still argue (even with those exceptions) that it means something larger than whatever can be counted, for some sense of counting.

• CommentRowNumber4.
• CommentAuthorTodd_Trimble
• CommentTimeFeb 11th 2020

“Larger than” or “beyond”. I don’t think of ordinary real numbers as things one counts, but when thinking about calculus, I do think of $\infty$ and $-\infty$ as ideal points beyond all finite real numbers. Similarly with valuation fields, etc.