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by fjsolwmv 3076 days ago
Might be? Of course we can. Obviously infinite objects are irrelevant to modeling the real world. They are just a shorthand for adding a bunch of annoying qualifiers to every mathematical statement.
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> Obviously infinite objects are irrelevant to modeling the real world.

I disagree. The concept of infinite objects are essentially object sets with an unknown limit. This represents a general case from which we can draw important concepts.

It's a good thing we don't actually need the square root of two!