Infinity Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Early Indian=== The [[Indian mathematics|Jain mathematical]] text Surya Prajnapti (c. 4thβ3rd century BCE) classifies all numbers into three sets: [[enumerable]], innumerable, and infinite. Each of these was further subdivided into three orders:<ref>{{cite book|author=Ian Stewart|title=Infinity: a Very Short Introduction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iewwDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA117|year=2017|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-875523-4|page=117|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170403200429/https://books.google.com/books?id=iewwDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA117|archive-date=April 3, 2017}}</ref> * Enumerable: lowest, intermediate, and highest * Innumerable: nearly innumerable, truly innumerable, and innumerably innumerable * Infinite: nearly infinite, truly infinite, infinitely infinite Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page