Calculus Is Deeply Irrational

Re:Calculus Is Deeply Irrational by inflatableDodo on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @04:58PM (#20752054)

Hence dartboards have the mathematical property that a dart thrown into one is infinitely more likely to land on an integer than on a computable real (or a natural number, but for different reasons).

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Re:Calculus Is Deeply Irrational by saagarjha on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @07:55PM (#20753438)

How so? Aren’t all integers computable real numbers?

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Re:Calculus Is Deeply Irrational by inflatableDodo on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @09:06PM (#20753794)

Not in darts. You can prove this to your satisfaction, by attempting to reach the continuum between the integers.

The dart will bounce off the metal framey bit and stick into the forehead of local barfly, 'Very Angry Ron'. Then when you graph the result, violent discontinuities will appear in the function, across a wide range of scales.

These already have their own special set in category theory and are sometimes referred to, within the field, as; 'Assorted and Unreasonable Associates of Very Angry Ron'. That is, the other side of a reasonably big field, ideally with some cattle in the way.

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Re:Calculus Is Deeply Irrational by heavenlyblue on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @12:41PM (#20758926)

Google returns this exact post to the query of “Assorted and Unreasonable Associates of Very Angry Ron”.

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Re:Calculus Is Deeply Irrational by tripzilch on Thursday August 22, 2019 @08:31AM (#20767283)

Must be another one of those pesky self-citing researchers.

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Re:Calculus Is Deeply Irrational by inflatableDodo on Thursday August 22, 2019 @03:21PM (#20771483)

Please forgive me father, for indulging in the sins of Onan.

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