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Anxiety or fear about infinity is irrational and even a psychiatric condition known as "apeirophobia".
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→See also: Infinity denial
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Infinity helps define other terms ("paradise" is infinite happiness; Hell is infinite distress).
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Infinity is extraordinarily useful in many ways, including defining other terms ("paradise" is infinite happiness).
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understanding other terms: infinity helps define other terms concisely, such as "open circuit" (infinite resistance).
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rock music: paradise (in love songs, such as "Two Tickets to Paradise") represents infinite happiness.
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sociology: traditional marriage is infinitely more stable than other types of relationships
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statistics through the central limit theorem, which states that the distribution of the average for a series of nearly any type of distribution approaches the normal distribution
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literature, as in ''An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge'' (1890) and many great works inspired by it, which use a nearly infinite expansion of an infinitesimal amount of time
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→See also: added Logic of infinity
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Infinity means beyond enumeration. - This improved definition comports better with the use of term in daily life, and across cultures.</
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Some scoff at primitive numbering systems that quickly reach infinity rather than using large numbers. but that can actually be a more effective way of thinking about enormous quantities.
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In practical terms, infinity can mean more than one can use. The food supply is essentially infinite in cultures where obesity is a problem; wealth is essentially infinite for those who cannot spend it all in their lifetime; and time is infinite for thos
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→Infinity and mathematics
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its not similar to 0
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