If you started to count today and continued counting day and night, without stopping, for the rest of your life, you would never get to a last number, because there isn’t one.
Mathematicians tells us that no matter how large a number you would get to, there would always still be one larger.
This idea is important in science and has a special name, infinity, and its own special symbol, ∞.
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