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Koshkin
1523 days ago
But the real numbers cannot be faithfully represented in a computer!
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l33t2328
1523 days ago
So? Neither can the list of possible computer programs, yet CS studies them
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Koshkin
1522 days ago
It does not look like CS studies the real numbers.
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l33t2328
1521 days ago
Each real number can be represented as a subset of the natural numbers. CS surely studies these.
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Koshkin
1521 days ago
But not the representations themselves (which is what's important in this case).
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