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Re:Calculus Is Deeply Irrational by stephencanon on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @01:58PM (#20749889)
Most people who say the real numbers make sense doesn't know what they're talking about. The real numbers are pretty bizarre no matter how much mathematics you've studied.

You can learn to prove things about them rigorously, and memorize a lot of properties, but very few people will ever develop an accurate intuition for them.

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Re:Calculus Is Deeply Irrational by selimthegrim on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @10:43AM (#20757686)
There’s a famous story of a seminar on p-adic numbers at Princeton where Harish-Chandra was in attendance and one of the audience brings up some intuition from ordinary primes and the speaker replies with a joke about the degenerate case of the real numbers.
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