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by TheOtherHobbes
1 day ago
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> What do "real" numbers buy you? They're a powerful abstraction - the base concept of a smooth continuous complete domain which encodes non-trivial relationships, and is a prototype for other analytic abstractions. The reals are the philosophical base class for some very useful mathematical objects. Computability and physicality are both side issues. |
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