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Infinity is not a number. It is another way of saying that something gets larger and larger without an end. So, you cannot add 1 to some thing which is not a number. However, in mathematics, there are infinities that could be added, multiplied, or subtracted. There are cardinal, ordinal, surreal and hyperreal numbers to all of which 1 can be meaningfully added. For infinite cardinal numbers, adding one does not change the number. For ordinal numbers, the number can be changed depending on whether you add 1 to the number, or the number to 1 - there is no commutativity. With hyperreal numbers, one can do pretty much anything one would expect of a real number. As to the surreal ones, the arithmetic operations produce magic results increasing the number of various infinities to fantastic proportions. In general, to add 1 to a number means to take the successor of that number. The successor of a set A is the set which consists of all the elements of A along with A itself. In other words the successor of A is A U {A}, and it has "one" more element than A. So, infinity + 1 = infinity U {infinity}.

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Infinity is not a number. It is another way of saying that something gets larger and larger without an end. So, you cannot add 1 to some thing which is not a number. However, in mathematics, there are infinities that could be added, multiplied, or subtracted. There are cardinal, ordinal, surreal and hyperreal numbers to all of which 1 can be meaningfully added. For infinite cardinal numbers, adding one does not change the number. For ordinal numbers, the number can be changed depending on whether you add 1 to the number, or the number to 1 - there is no commutativity. With hyperreal numbers, one can do pretty much anything one would expect of a real number. As to the surreal ones, the arithmetic operations produce magic results increasing the number of various infinities to fantastic proportions. In general, to add 1 to a number means to take the successor of that number. The successor of a set A is the set which consists of all the elements of A along with A itself. In other words the successor of A is A U {A}, and it has "one" more element than A. So, infinity + 1 = infinity U {infinity}.

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Everything except 1 and 3/4 is not equal to 1 and 3/4. 1 and 3/4 can be represented as 1.75 or 7/4, which are the same number. In the complex plane, this could be written as 7/4 + 0i, or 1.75 + 0i. You can do all kinds of other things to the numbers without changing the value, for example writing the fraction as 14 / 8, or even writing an infinitesimal, a kind of hyperreal number with a decimal that never ends: 1.749999999999… and so on, which actually equals 1.75.

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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 1 words with the pattern -YP-R--A-. That is, nine letter words with 2nd letter Y and 3rd letter P and 5th letter R and 8th letter A. In alphabetical order, they are:

hyperreal

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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 6 words with the pattern -YP-----L. That is, nine letter words with 2nd letter Y and 3rd letter P and 9th letter L. In alphabetical order, they are:

hyperreal

hypethral

hypnoidal

hypocotyl

hypogaeal

typhoidal

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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 3 words with the pattern --P--R-AL. That is, nine letter words with 3rd letter P and 6th letter R and 8th letter A and 9th letter L. In alphabetical order, they are:

hyperreal

raptorial

superreal

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