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by scotty79 4564 days ago
IMHO real numbers are anything but. I believe there isn't a single thing in the universe that is represented by real number. Any physical law that involves pi should be considered as statistical in nature. There are no perfect circles. Only the things that are really well approximated by them.
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Amen to that. The real world is discrete. The real numbers in our equations are just approximations.