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 implication of Gödel and Turing’s proofs is that an infinite precision hypercomputer cannot be built, not just in our universe, but in any language.
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Correct me if I am wrong, please, but our computers operate based on a state machine principle. If you calculate each decimal point step by step you will never get a precise irrational number. However, as I implied: modifying architecture to allow irrationals can change the plot
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How do you propose to integrate an infinite amount of information in a finite number of implementable operations?
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