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by ummonk 1802 days ago
> It is in its canonical form (i.e. as a numbers, not something that represents it), which is what I said.

This isn't a coherent sentence. A real number is a cauchy sequence of rational numbers. There is no one canonical sequence that defines Pi.

> No I don't. I could pick two atoms floating through space somewhere and say "This distance, right now." > I could also say: "The distance traveled by this particle in a second."

That process of picking out and localizing the atoms (which are not localized to specific points) would entail performing a measurement with a macroscopic apparatus. At that point, the configuration of the apparatus can be encoded.