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Question About "Countless" in Tiering

Phoenks

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Shouldn't countless be treated as "possibly infinite", due to a popular synonym and definition of it being Endless/Infinite?

ATM it seems it is just "Very High Finite," which makes sense, but in many cases it does feel as if the word was used in place of "infinite," especially in higher-tired verses on the wiki.
 
It's because countless, while it could mean infinite, is normally used to refer to just a finite number too big to actual know the exact amount of. Really, countless universes could even be 2-C, as having a number in the hundreds is enough for it to be beyond a humans ability to count in a reasonable amount of time.
 
I agree, but I am mostly asking why it isn't sometimes treated as being "Possibly Infinite"


For example, let's say there's some impossibly vast amount of universes in a series, and so the author uses the word countless rather than infinite.

I would say the tiering should be something like 2-B, possibly 2-A
 
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