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Re:Are real numbers really real? by ducttapecrown on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @02:23PM (#17296295)
pi and e are very important numbers!
Re:Are real numbers really real? by roywiggins on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @02:46PM (#17296556)
They also belong to the much smaller set of computable numbers. The set of all reals is almost entirely full of absolutely useless numbers- ones that can't be compressed or expressed by any algorithm or notation system with a finite amount of space.
Re:Are real numbers really real? by gowld on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @05:19PM (#17298114)
I've never seen one of these supposedly useless numbers. Every one I've seen can be expressed. ;-)
Re:Are real numbers really real? by Tloewald on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @11:44PM (#17300073)
Right, they might well be basis vectors.