I am bigger than any number you can name, yet some of me are bigger than others. I am not a number yet mathematicians work with me every day. What am I?

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Infinity. Infinity is not a number but a concept — the idea of something without end. Remarkably, mathematician Georg Cantor proved that some infinities are larger than others. For example, the infinity of real numbers is larger than the infinity of whole numbers.

"I am bigger than any number you can name, yet some of me are bigger than others. I am not a number yet mathematicians work with me every day. What am I?"

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