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by tux3 93 days ago
0.1 is of course a real number, but let A \in R the set of actual numbers... (/s)
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Sharlin 93 days ago
The funny thing is, according to infinitists real numbers are not real. But I do like the concept of the set of actual numbers.
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hnfong 93 days ago
I don't know whether I'm an infinitist, but I personally think "real numbers" is the most ingenious marketing term created by mathematicians...
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jmalicki 93 days ago
\infty is an actual number not in R
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JohnKemeny 93 days ago
Should be \subset.
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