alt Hacker NewsThey pretty quickly realize that there is no winning because you can always just say more numbers than the last kid - there is no biggest number. Usually something like "a hundred million million million million million and two", "a hundred million million million million million and three", etc.
And then someone, whose friend or older brother taught them the concept, blurts out "infinity". And after a quick explanation, everyone more or less gets it.
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24 is the highest number. Where you gonna go from there?
The obvious way to win in this game, that probably many kids discover is to define your number as "whatever number the other kid says, plus 1".
And then the next kid says "infinity plus two", which is a perfectly acceptable progression, and the cycle starts again.
The game is to name a larger number. Is infinity a number? Some would say, “no”.
Eventually, one of the kids will name a largest number, because no one else will name another and the game ends with a largest number.
It is possible that aliens exist, so is that proof aliens exist?
Is is possible to create ever larger numbers, but is that proof that infinity exists other than as a fanciful idea in our minds?