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Re:Math: Are negative numbers real things? by ttctciyf on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @09:15AM (#11072809)
If this bothers you, you probably won't be pleased to learn that the overwhelming majority of "real numbers" can't be written down or even computed (ok, in principle you can enumerate the digits of at least one such number, but "Becher and Figueira proved in 2002 that there is a computable absolutely normal number, however no digits of their number are known.") [1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number

Re:Math: Are negative numbers real things? by joehilton on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @09:49AM (#11073062)
This is very interesting - thanks for the reply and link. I'll dive into Becher and Figueria.