To-date, not one single calculation has ever been done on a real number.
@tailcalled @argletargle I'm using "numbers" to denote the sequence of digits. In my view, math notation is a program to produce the digits.
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@MoralOfStory@argletargle Why? Digits are not exactly well-behaved... -
@tailcalled@argletargle I believe that's my point :) - 7 more replies
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@MoralOfStory@tailcalled@argletargle sequence of digits is not the only way to represent a number. better question: what is a number? -
@ssiinna@MoralOfStory@argletargle A real number is a member of an ordered Archimedean field.
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