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by lotharbot 4735 days ago
> "describe them in terms of what?"

Describe them (completely) in terms of any finite series of symbols.

Some numbers can be described as "7". Some as "pencil length". Some as "the fourth zero of the third Bessel function of the first kind". These are all describable numbers.

Yet there are vastly more numbers that cannot be described in this way -- vastly more numbers that we miss than that we hit.