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Although no mortal man can imagine Infinity, nonetheless something so huge can be represented by numerical symbols arranged in a series, which seems greater than Infinity, even though this is not so.

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Von Guericke, O. (1994). Number. In: The New (So-Called) Magdeburg Experiments of Otto Von Guericke. Archives Internationales D’Histoire Des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 137. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2010-4_45

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