So, I’m going to assume you mean a number whose magnitude “keeps getting smaller” instead of just negative infinity. And yes, there is. They’re called infinitesimals. I’d say the most well-known set containing infinitesimals is that of the hyperreals. They behave just like the reals, except there’s a number called epsilon which is below any positive real number but greater than 0. Answer from CookieCat698 on reddit.com
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October 19, 2023 - Limits were implicit in Newton and Leibniz’s work, but they were modified and redefined later in the early 1800s. The new ideas were mathematically rigorous and consistent. The details are beyond the scope of this article, but limits allowed mathematicians to finally get rid of infinitesimals for good. What we still haven’t gotten rid of is the absurdity that is infinity. ... Elementary Calculus: An Infinitesimal Approach. The University of Wisconsin–Madison · Numberphile (2015). The Opposite of Infinity - Numberphile.
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What is the opposite of infinity?
Antonyms for infinity include bounds, definiteness, ending, finiteness, finity, limitation, limited number, finitude, some and handful. Find more opposite words at wordhippo.com!
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Zero makes more sense, but still if zero is the opposite of infinity then with this zero there can be no potential for 1 (or anything else) which means if zero is the opposite of infinity then there is only zero, and if there is only zero then that zero is in effect infinite... I think "finite" is the best answer seeing as infinity is a concept not a number... although numbers are just concepts too :s ... To my untrained (past A-level) mathematical mind: If we allow negative numbers to exist then it should be negative infinity.
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Answer (1 of 16): I'll answer for "infinity" as the mathematical concept. Whenever someone treats infinity as a number, as you just did, I just switch off my mathematical formality and answer "intuitively". There are a lot of advanced concepts about infinity that can be discussed without leaving...
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While infinity signifies an unbounded or limitless quantity, zero denotes a complete lack of anything. In some contexts, such as mathematics, the concept of negative infinity can also ...
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Is my logic completely flawed or does it make sense?

Your question makes a lot of separate claims that each have different issues, so I think the best way to clear things up is to comment on some individual lines.

Clarifying the Logic

If infiniti is the highest theoretical number

"Infinity" (note the "y" at the end in English) is not just one idea, and the ideas related to infinity are not always called "number"s, and never have all the nice properties that "real numbers" do. For a survey of some related ideas, see the English Wikipedia page for Infinity or the Math StackExchange question Understanding infinity.

what is the opposite of it?

Dictionary.com has a definition for "opposite": "contrary or radically different in some respect common to both...". This can me used in a variety of different ways in mathematics. Here are two main ones:

  1. In arithmetic, "opposite" often means the additive inverse or negative of a regular finite number. So you might hope that a given concept of infinity has something analogous, like a "negative infinity".
  2. If you think of infinity as in some sense "very big (and positive)", then a different application of the definition would make the opposite "very small (and positive)". It is in this sense that the word "infinitesimal" may be used. For regular finite numbers, this kind of opposite might be the multiplicative inverse or reciprocal.

then we know that because of the transitive property...

This entire line of reasoning is invalid because you are treating the two ideas of "opposite" above as if they are the same thing. As HallaSurvivor alluded to in a comment, this is very similar to saying: " is an opposite of because it's the same size but negative. And is an opposite of because multiplying by shrinks something by the same factor that multiplying by grows it. Since they're both 'opposites', ."

Clarifying Infinity

As discussed above, there are at least two senses of "opposite" you might be interested in: something like "negative infinity" and something like "reciprocal infinity". What sense these do or do not make depends a lot on what meaning of infinity you're working with. Without getting into all of the possible interpretations in detail, I'll just outline a few key examples.

Beyond regular decimals?

zero point infinite zeros followed by a single one

This would not represent a real number, and does not have a standard definition. People have tried making up new number systems where this sort of thing would convey some meaning, but it's not easy and to my knowledge hasn't ever been shown to work out nicely. This matter is discussed a bit in answers to the Math StackExchange question Is it possible to create the smallest real positive number by axiome?.

Calculus

In Calculus, the lemniscate is used to represent an idea like "a function or sequence gets (and stays) greater than any finite positive number". For instance, we might say "the limit of is " because the sequence stays above after the tenth term, stays above $1000$ after the term, etc.

Analogously, it's common to then use to represent things that get and stay less than any finite negative number". For example, might be said to have a limit of . Note that we cannot usefully think of this as an additive inverse to . For example, if we add the two sequences above term by term, we get which stays at and does not approach .

As for , since the reciprocals of a sequence that gets larger and larger get smaller and smaller, some may write . In this context, people would not generally call that an infinitesimal, just .

Complex Calculus

When doing Calculus with the complex numbers in "complex analysis", we are not limited to two directions on the number line since there is a whole complex plane to work with. In that context, we often use the symbol to represent things that get and stay further away from than any finite positive distance, no matter the direction. A way of visualizing that is the Riemann sphere. In that usage, both sequences above have numbers moving away from zero, so their behavior might both be represented by , and there is no (or perhaps we would declare ).

Similarly to the real numbers, reciprocals of complex numbers far from are close to , so it would be common to write .

Infinite Sizes

Another common use of the ideas of infinity is in giving names to the sizes of infinite sets in the study of "cardinality". But every set has at least elements, so "negative infinity" would make no sense in that sort of context. And it doesn't make sense to have between and elements, so "reciprocal infinity" wouldn't make sense either.

Abstract Settings

In more obscure mathematics, we might have a sort of "number system" where arithmetic and order work out in a fairly normal way, but there are now new numbers larger than any positive integer. Many of these are called "non-Archimedean ordered fields". In such a system, there is not just one "infinity" so we would not use the symbol , but we could have "an infinite element " and then things like , , and might all make perfect sense.

In this context, "positive infinite" would mean "greater than any positive integer". And "positive infinitesimal" would mean "positive but less than the reciprocal of any positive integer". might be considered an "infinitesimal", but would still not make sense.

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Answer (1 of 12): By the rules of Algebra, the opposite of a number is that number which, when added to it, gives you zero. In that regard, infinity doesn't have an opposite, because there's nothing that you can add to it that will give you ...
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What is the inverse of infinity? - Answers
The inverse of infinity is a number approaching zero but less than any other number. This means that it is close to zero but not equal to it, a infinitesimal number.
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What is the opposite of infinite?
Antonyms for infinite include limited, bounded, circumscribed, finite, restricted, confined, definite, measurable, brief and calculable. Find more opposite words at wordhippo.com!
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What does -∞ mean? (negative infinity?)
Infinity is just a concept of endlessness, and can be used to represent numbers going on forever. Negative infinity is the opposite of (positive) infinity, or just negative numbers going on forever.
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Is Nothing Truly the Opposite of Infinity? • Physics Forums
February 17, 2020 - With a generous amount of tongue in cheek, I would say that minus infinity is the polar opposite of infinity with nothing in the middle. After all, when you add infinity and minus infinity, you get nothing.
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Properties of Infinity
Some operations are straightforward, while others produce indeterminate forms (meaning they don’t have a well-defined answer). Zero is the mathematical opposite to infinity and is included in the table below as it too creates indeterminate forms.
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Answer (1 of 24): There is such a thing as -0, and it is the same as 0, since 0 is the additive identity. That 0 is the “additive identity” means that for any x for which addition is defined, x+0=0+x=x. The notation -x denotes the additive inverse of x, which is the number such that x+(-x) ...
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Answer (1 of 7): Mathematics is fun, and has many parts, each with axioms, definitions, symbols, and inferencing rules. In mathematics, all a number needs to be infinite, is to be larger than any finite number. For my answer, I'll with the Alexandroff extension of the real numbers and take as in...
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Answer (1 of 3): It depends what you mean by “opposite”. The word in-finity means “not finite”, so a possibility is “finite”, but this does not really oppose in most contexts. A better word is complement. Infinity is not a strictly defined number, it is outside the number system ...
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Why is the opposite of infinity an infinitesimal when the number 0 is infinitely small and just seems like the reverse of infinity? - Quora
Answer (1 of 4): If you wish to use a technical term like "infinitesimal" please learn some other technical terms like "inverse" rather than using (in this context) vague non-technical terms like "opposite" and "reverse". In appropriate contexts the multiplicative inverse of an infinite value, s...