“1” and The Largest Number for Mankind
Infinite is a concept not a number. But, an infinite number is possible.
On the other hand, according to modern mathematics, there is no such a number as is larger than any other numbers (so far known to mankind).
Therefore it is, in a sense, forbidden to express it.
Nonetheless, this number MAY be expressed as follows:
X = 999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999…
Note that the digit order here is opposite to the ordinary one, which means for example nine hundred and eighty-seven is expressed as 789 in this convention, not as 987. The fist “9” in the right side is on the digit 10**0 (= 1) and the second “9” on 10**1 (=10). This may be called a “mirror number.”
In anyway, the expression covers every possible digit for mankind, while following the conventional convention of mathematical expression that the first element of the right side of an equation should be a definite number.
(Note: As we are facing the infinite “∞,” a component of decimal numbers smaller than one is here eliminated.)
Now, the number X “can be compared with” any number expressed in the same convention, through ordinary arithmetic operation digit by digit.
Then, it is realized instantly and logically that X “must be” still larger than any other numbers, including any other infinite numbers that should be projected to, and expressed in, the same convention using one of the numbers from 0 to 9 to each digit, unless they are mere conceptions.
As a consequence, the largest number is, as you expect, expressed in an infinite series of “9,” however, in the opposite order of digits.
This is a special analogy with the following expression:
1 = 0.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999…
If the right side of this equation has a real and definite value of one, then that of the “X equation” may have a real and definite value though the two equations have the opposite magnitude relation.
If this fantasy is allowed to be real, the number X, which does conceptually EXIST since it has its own unique and authentic expression, MAY be equal to another “one,” say, “One” in the Kingdom of God.
“1” = (An infinite series of the human number 9)
(Note: Refer to “http://mathworld.wolfram.com/topics/NumberTheory.html” or the like, for the sound development of your mathematics knowledge.)
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To my surprise, a public education program of the Japanese public TV station (NHK) very recently introduced Malcolm X in the “Islam in America” part of the International Politics Course.
The famous Islamist African American was killed in New York in February, 1965.
When the NHK lecturer and the staff visited New York for preparation of this program, they were amazed to find many African Americans who still or all the more respected the civil right leader Malcolm X.
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When we think of Jesus Christ today, we might be conceiving of Him in the wrong direction, looking back at Him from AD 2006.
When Malcolm X thought of Mohammed, he might be thinking of the Founder of Islam in the right direction, which might have so acutely appealed to many people in various situations.
“GOD’S GLORY SHINING IN THE FACE OF CHRIST”