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Examples of infinite sets abound in mathematics. You know, we see them every day. So do those infinities exist? Think you'll get a different answer from every person, every mathematician you meet.

However, there’s also an infinite set of real numbers, which includes negatives and decimals. Keep following this train of thought, and you create an infinite set of infinities.

Countably Infinite Sets Our baseline level of infinity will come from our most basic infinite set: the previously mentioned natural numbers.

The set of real numbers, in turn, is smaller than even larger infinities, and so on. To measure the size of infinite sets, Cantor introduced so-called transfinite numbers.