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When mathematicians say "infinitely many" instead of "infinity" they just sound like pseudo-intellectual retards. So why do it?

Pic unrelated, I know it's dividing by 0. I don't have a related pic.
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>>8021674
>there are infinitely many natural numbers
>there are infinity natural numbers
The second sounds retarded, like a school child.
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>>8021674
>not even hiding the division by zero
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>>8021674
Can you give an example or three?
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Just because there's an infinite amount of objects, doesn't mean you can just throw out the properties of those objects.
infinitely many is better.
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>>8021674
First off:
>Mathematician talking about math
>Sounding like a retard
You should reevaluate who sounds like a retard.

Second:
"Infinitely" and "infinity" are two different words expressing different parts of speech, and they have correspondingly different uses, and you're actually retarded if you don't know this.
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>>8021674
It's sounds more awkward to say infinity over infinitely many

How many are there?
>There are infinity or There are infinity of them
versus
>There are infinitely many or There are infinitely many of them
It's purely phonetic preference
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>>8021674
picture is so bait, I'm just closing my eyes
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>>8021801
>0=0
>5-5=6-6
>5(1-1)=6(1-1)
>5*0=6*0
>"hurr durr"
>5=6

Who can possibly be baited by this except retards?
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>>8022217
But isn't the fallacy already in step 2? You essentially multiplied the LHS by 5, and the RHS by 6.
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>>8022217
All the trouble basically stemmed from the fact, that the original equation was "0=0". So with any equation, do we constantly need to account for the fact that both sides might be equal to 0 at any time and hogwash might result unexpectedly?
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>>8022227
Low quality bait
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>>8022306
But it's true.

0=0
5*0=6*0
5(1-1)=6(1-1)
5-5=6-6
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