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by yongjik
3385 days ago
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TLDR: It is a rather nontrivial result that each real number can be represented by an infinite sequence of digits, although not uniquely (as other comments said). However, to understand that, we need to answer several questions: * What is a real number, after all? How do we even define it? * When we have a sequence of digits like 0.12345678..., and when we say this sequence represents a number X, what exactly does that mean? * (...which leads to): What is a sequence? What does it mean for an infinite sequence to converge? So, it's definitely not "Duh, it's obvious": some work is needed to understand all this. I recommend reading the first several chapters of any good book on analysis. |
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What's the last number you've written after two minutes? Is it the last digit of pi?