Is infinity a real number?

Infinity is a "real" and useful concept. However, infinity is not a member of the mathematically defined set of "real numbers" and, therefore, it is not a number on the real number line.
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Is − ∞ ∞ all real numbers?

There is no difference. The notation (−∞,∞) in calculus is used because it is convenient to write intervals like this in case not all real numbers are required, which is quite often the case.
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Is infinite real or imaginary?

No. Imaginary numbers are well defined and do not include a number called infinity.
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Why ∞ is not a number?

No. Infinity is not a number. Instead, it's a kind of number. You need infinite numbers to talk about and compare amounts that are unending, but some unending amounts—some infinities—are literally bigger than others.
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Is infinity True or false?

Thus, NaN becomes false , and Infinity becomes true . We sometimes refer to values as "truthy" or "falsy" depending on whether ToBoolean coerces them to true or false . If you look at the spec for logical OR, the operator returns either the original lval or rval (left/right value), not its coerced boolean value.
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Why can't infinity exist?

There are no building blocks for infinity. It can't be defined in terms of the natural universe because infinity doesn't exist in physics.
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Who created infinity?

infinity, the concept of something that is unlimited, endless, without bound. The common symbol for infinity, ∞, was invented by the English mathematician John Wallis in 1655. Three main types of infinity may be distinguished: the mathematical, the physical, and the metaphysical.
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Can I add 1 to infinity?

If you add one to infinity, you still have infinity; you don't have a bigger number. If you believe that, then infinity is not a number.
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Do numbers ever end?

The sequence of natural numbers never ends, and is infinite. So, when we see a number like “0.999…” (i.e. a decimal number with an infinite series of 9s), there is no end to the number of 9s. You cannot say “but what happens if it ends in an 8?”, because it simply does not end.
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What is the biggest number ever?

Notice how it's spelled: G-O-O-G-O-L, not G-O-O-G-L-E. The number googol is a one with a hundred zeros. It got its name from a nine-year old boy.
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Is infinity a fact?

The smallest infinity is how many whole numbers there are: 1, 2, 3, 4 and so on forever. If we include fractions there are infinitely many more numbers. In fact there are infinitely many fractions in between each whole number.
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Is zero a real number?

Real numbers can be positive or negative, and include the number zero. They are called real numbers because they are not imaginary, which is a different system of numbers. Imaginary numbers are numbers that cannot be quantified, like the square root of -1.
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What is the 10th Fibonacci number?

the tenth Fibonacci number is Fib(10) = 55. The sum of its digits is 5+5 or 10 and that is also the index number of 55 (10-th in the list of Fibonacci numbers).
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Can you multiply infinity by 0?

Any number times any number is a number, so let's just call any number 1. Any number times 0 equals 0 and any number times infinity equals infinity.
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What number is after 999 billion?

After a billion, of course, is trillion. Then comes quadrillion, quintrillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, and decillion.
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Is pi a number?

In decimal form, the value of pi is approximately 3.14. But pi is an irrational number, meaning that its decimal form neither ends (like 1/4 = 0.25) nor becomes repetitive (like 1/6 = 0.166666...). (To only 18 decimal places, pi is 3.141592653589793238.)
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Can you multiply infinity by 2?

We can multiply infinity by two and have 2 ω. We can add one to it and have ω + 1. These are all hyperreal numbers. We can even square the infinity and have ω2.
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Can you square infinity?

Infinity squared is just infinity. There are differing "levels" of infinity depending on which set of numbers you are talking about.
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What is infinity divided 0?

Thus infinity/0 is a problem both because infinity is not a number and because division by zero is not allowed.
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How do you type ∞?

How to type infinity symbol on keyboard. Hold the ALT key and type 236 on the num-lock keypad. Hold the ALT key and type 236 on the num-lock keypad.
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Does infinity exist in nature?

It's infinite, but you never reach or experience the infinity. In a subject like cosmology, there are lots of infinities like that and most people are quite happy with them. For example, the Universe might have infinite size; it might have an infinite past age, it might be destined to have an infinite future age.
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What number is bigger than infinity?

As no number is imagined beyond it(no real number is larger than infinity). The symbol (∞) sets the limit or unboundedness in calculus. But in cardinal and ordinal numbers there are other bigger infinities which are surreal numbers.
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Is infinite really infinite?

So the conclusion is: science (that is, physics) cannot establish existence of infinite quantities. There is nothing physically infinite. As such, existence or non-existence of infinite quantities is outside of the scope of science.
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Is infinity a paradox?

The paradox states that you can still fit another infinite number of guests in the hotel because of the infinite number of rooms. If the rooms were full, then there is a last room, which means that the number of rooms is countable. To solve this paradox, we must first make it clear that infinity is not a number.
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