Today’s shower thought: since almost all real numbers are irrational, it seems surprising that the answer to life, the universe, and everything is a natural number.
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oh I see. “Computable number” is an existing mathematical term. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_number … You are describing something different
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Yes, ‘computable number’ means that you can represent it by an algorithm that gives you arbitrary precision. It does not require that something can actually compute its value, i.e. that this algorithm terminates.
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