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Re:Struggles with the Continuum by empath75 on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @05:57PM (#12448197)
They assume the axiom of choice because it makes a lot of nice results possible. So, it's not exactly arbitrary.
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Re:Struggles with the Continuum by DigitalPhysics on Friday September 09, 2016 @12:19PM (#12463612)
Let Mathematicians frolic in the Platonic world if they wish, but should physicists be using continuous math if our universe ends up by being discrete and finite?
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