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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I think you’re kinda mixing things up. It’s not like there are bigger and smaller infinites.

It’s more than there are some sets that are infinite and some are still bigger than others.

For example, the set of positive numbers is the same size as the set of positive AND negative numbers combined. I’m sure you heard about that. However, the set of all continuous numbers between 0 and 1 is bigger than both of them combined

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