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by edflsafoiewq 2351 days ago
A constructive response is that the ability to examine a real number to arbitrary precision is already highly idealized. In the real world you will quickly exhaust your ability to measure a real quantity to ever higher precision.

> you can't even provide an equality operator

If you are given two rods, there is no way to tell if the two rods are of the same length.