Talk:Arbitrarily large

untitled

^Confusing

I'm not a mathematician, but I am having some trouble with this concept. I think it needs to be fleshed out. It seems to me that if there are arbitrarily large progressions of prime numbers, than there will always be a progression that is larger than that one. Sounds like unbounded behavior to me. How is this different from infinitely large? Scapermoya (talk) 09:31, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

If it were infinitely large, there would be a single sequence that went on forever. Another way of thinking of "arbitrarily large" is "large, for whatever size you decide in advance constitutes being large". Jake (talk) 04:10, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

You could also see it like this: an infinitely large set of integers contains arbitrarily large numbers, because every one number in that set has a well defined size, which means that the size of that number can not be infinite.Rody1990 (talk) 23:04, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Arbitrarily large. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120222213518/http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/htdp2e-part2.html to http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/htdp2e-part2.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at {{Sourcecheck}}).

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 02:30, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Arbitrarily large. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120222215520/http://www.xamuel.com/arbitrary-and-infinity/ to http://www.xamuel.com/arbitrary-and-infinity/

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 13:07, 24 December 2017 (UTC)