Re:Are real numbers really real?
by ducttapecrown on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @02:23PM
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pi and e are very important numbers!
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Re:Are real numbers really real?
by roywiggins on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @02:46PM
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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.
I've never seen one of these supposedly useless numbers. Every one I've seen can be expressed. ;-)