I cannot understand how there are “larger infinities than others” no matter how hard I try.

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I have watched many videos on YouTube about it from people like vsauce, veratasium and others and even my math tutor a few years ago but still don’t understand.

Infinity is just infinity it doesn’t end so how can there be larger than that.

It’s like saying there are 4s greater than 4 which I don’t know what that means. If they both equal and are four how is one four larger.

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You can understand that there are infinite number of fractions between 0-1.

You can understand there are an infinite number of intervals between to subsequent cardinals.

So there is an infinite number of fractions an infinite number of times.

If after watching those videos you don’t understand, you’re probably better giving up anyway because they do a pretty darn good job at it, better than me.

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