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.
You cannot actually pick such a number, because you cannot store it in your local universe neighborhood. You can represent the idea of picking such a number, but you cannot implement it.
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Yes, you can represent an algorithm that could compute the value of that number, if you had more resources than you have.
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