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Re:How real are real numbers? (2004) by eli_gottlieb on Monday April 10, 2017 @05:53PM (#14082887)
Banach-Tarski isn't a paradox. It's just what happens when you build geometric "shapes" out of nonmeasurable sets. In actual, real-world geometry, we almost always assume the set of points inside the shape/construction we care about is measurable, and that any geometric operations we perform must preserve measure.
Re:How real are real numbers? (2004) by mannykannot on Monday April 10, 2017 @06:01PM (#14082934)
Thanks - I have seen it mentioned in many places (often with "paradox" appended, e.g. [1]), but never with such a succinct commentary as you have given here.

[1] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Banach-TarskiParadox.html