[lebaux]

Sorry for dumb question, but can someone please explain to a non-programmer, why the author made the title "The Curse of the Excluded Middle"? What is so special about "middle"? What is middle in programming?

I am a fairly dumb person, but I am lately super interested in 1=0 math paradox/proof and it just occurred to me, what is the middle of rational numbers? What is the middle of irrational numbers? To me, it feels like the middle of all numbers is 0, but if irrational numbers are not considered "real", it can't be 0.

These 2 things are probably wildly unrelated, but I would appreciate any explanation of the linked blog post in the simplest terms. Thank you!