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Lines are infinitely extended. Maybe you meant a line segment. Line segments have a minimum of 2 points.


Line segments have a minimum of an infinite number of points.


I assume they meant two end points (which cannot be the same point) to which the line segment is bound.


That's one of the paradoxes of Euclidean geometry, where a line/line segment is made up of an infinite number of points, but those points have no length or width, and infinity times 0 is still 0, so technically a line should have no length. Clearly, it does not.


Infinity times zero isn't zero, it's undefined.




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