(As an aside this is also exactly the same as a number one with an infinite sequence of nines after the decimal.)
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Therefore calculus, which started out based on the assumption of a continuous world (the "infinitesimal"), is a shortcut, a kludge It lets you calculate shit faster than counting up all the particles or whatever that are actually there
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And again, that's fine All of math is that Adding up integers is that (Zeno's paradoxes were his attempt at demonstrating all numbers higher than 1 are a lie, and honestly they remain pretty convincing)
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I think if you're talking about things like Planck units and the standard model of elementary particles it's probably worth expanding from "real world" to "observable universe"
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(Lebesgue defeats Riemann finally!)
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