r/askmath May 06 '26

Discrete Math Can infinity contain infinity

If pi has no end it has to have every combination of numbers but could it hold an infinite combination? Like 1 2 3 4... To infinity

Please help this is missing my brain up

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u/mpaw976 May 06 '26

As stated, no, that's not guaranteed because there's a difference between having every finite string, and every infinite string.

As a simple example,

0.101101110111101111101...

Will contain every finite string of 1s, but it won't contain 111... repeating forever.

In fact, any given decimal number only "has room" to end in a single infinite string. E.g. it can't end in both all 0s and all 1s.

Isn't that neat?