Infinity minus Infinity


We tweaked the Addition war and played subtraction war this morning while having our brunch. The variation is: Subtract the greater number from the smaller and compare the difference.
Oh, you know what, during the course of playing, we talked about infinity and how our joker can be considered as infinity. When we had a war and we both turned the joker at the same time, there came this interesting question: what is joker minus joker or as we say in our 'subtraction war world',
What is infinity minus infinity?
Mom said infinity and Dad said Zero.
We googled only to be left with more questions than answers!
Due to the lack of time to do the research & the scope of the subject, mom concluded that we will put that question in the back burner for now until I am old enough to understand the explanation. We just are going to assume that infinity minus infinity is inconclusive - could be infinity or zero or 'minus infinity'. (I dont really know what 'minus infinity' means however).

1 comment:

  1. Interesting karthik...guess now i can see the advantage of playing these games and running into various scenarios which needs more explanations or explorations...keep playing !!!

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