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by new2628 2377 days ago
This is a fine and defensible (although not mainstream) viewpoint with several adherents among mathematicians and various levels of success in making it formal and precise.

See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finitism

Doron Zeilberger would like to pat you on the back.

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How do finitists describe the decimal representation of the fraction 1/3?
I don't think finitists have a problem with convergent sequences, they just wouldn't talk about infinities, rather than extending the sequence gets you as arbitrarily to 1/3 as you wish to go