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Re:How real are real numbers? (2004) by moefh on Monday April 10, 2017 @05:04PM (#14082540)
I don't think that argument works.

How do you guarantee that you can compute the n-th decimal of the n-th number in the list? In fact, from what I understand, this paper[1] shows how to specify exactly a number can't be computed like that.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1003.0480.pdf

Re:How real are real numbers? (2004) by stymaar on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @11:58AM (#14089296)
Why do you need to compute the n-th decimal of a number for this proof to work ? let Ω be a Chaitin Omega number it's decimal are non-computable, yet for every x, Ω + x is a perfectly valid number.

Then `floor(Ω.10^(n))-10.floor(Ω.10^n-1)` is also a number (a natural one) and actually it's the n-th decimal of Ω. It cannot be computed, but it still exist no matter what.