Proposition Infinity the method used for "Proposition Infinity", as the team felt that most viewers would not have a strong opinion for or against robot and human intermarriage, thus lightening the potentially polarizing nature of the source material. "Proposition Infinity" was inspired by the political battle over California Proposition 8 in the United States and heavily satirizes the controversy over same-sex marriage. The title is a reference to California Proposition 8 with the "8" sideways, thus becoming the symbol of infinity (∞). The camp where Bender is being reprogrammed parodies conversion therapy camps for homosexuals. The episode also satirizes the people against
Actual infinity infinity in "Physics" and in "Metaphysics". He distinguished between "actual" and "potential" infinity. "Actual infinity" is completed and definite, and consists of infinitely many elements. "Potential infinity" is never complete: elements can be always added, but never infinitely many. Aristotle distinguished between infinity with respect to addition and division. "As an example of a potentially infinite series in respect to increase, one number can always be added after another in the series that starts 1,2,3... but the process of adding more and more numbers cannot be exhausted or completed." With respect to division, a potentially infinite sequence of divisions starts