LRT: The idea of adding to infinity ("you can't do it, you'd still be adding when the sun went out") has me thinking of that short story I wrote where an immortal being trapped in an endless void tries to count to infinity to pass the time and eventually runs out of named numbers
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And indeed almost all real numbers are non-computable I.e. almost all real numbers cannot be named using the rules of arithmetic, geometry, algebra, calculus Even if you had an infinitely large universe and infinite time, almost all of them can't be expressed *in principle*
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“Almost all real numbers are transcendental” is a big part of what made me realize R is bullshit. Q-bar plus a finite number of extensions composed of specific conceptually meaningful numbers like e and pi. That’s it.
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