Why “reals” is being discussed
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> Nothing in your comment makes me want to go learn more theory, and I would argue that it's nonsense to anyone who is not a mathematician. What a coincidence this came up today…
by jgerrish · Sep 2, 2026
> Nothing in your comment makes me want to go learn more theory, and I would argue that it's nonsense to anyone who is not a mathematician. What a coincidence this came up today…
by jgerrish · Sep 2, 2026
> Reals numerical systems are much more diverse than that. For instance, Babylon used a base 60 (hence our minutes and hours). But there were much less than 60 numeric symbols,…
by leoc · Aug 31, 2026
You didn't name the object when you said "let this thing be X"; you actually had already identified that "thing", and that process of identification was the process of naming it…
by Smaug123 · Aug 29, 2026
Many ancient paradoxes are not really paradoxes. Zeno's ones are resolved today with infinite series. But this is a real one. Is it possible to describe an arbitrary real number…
by arjie · Aug 28, 2026
Interest
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