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by akira2501 792 days ago
I wonder if it's working with floating point numbers that made me less uncomfortable when first discovering infinitesimals. The idea that something just falls out of our current representable scope under certain operations seemed fine to me. I've always had a soft spot for infinitesimals and a slight dislike for epsilon-delta limits.
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I've always wondered if infinitesimals are really just an algebra of epsilon-delta proofs.