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.
The assumption that something can execute an algorithm with infinitely many operations in a finite number of steps leads to contradictions. This is why most mathematicians seems to have become constructivists after Gödel and Turing. Constructive math is computation.
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I didn’t mean that it is a limitation in terms of number of operations, what I meant is: irrational numbers are not “incomputable”. They just cannot be represented as a floating point number with exact precision. Computers have rough time with numbers when it comes to precision
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I know what uncomputable is, but I don’t know what you mean by incomputable.
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