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Re:Cantor function, a.k.a. devil's staircase by hilbertseries on Friday June 12, 2020 @02:25AM (#23496591)
There are a couple constructions like this in mathematics that... really make you think. Like Banach Tarski doesn’t make any sense.

Or the one that still bothers me, ten years after I learned it. Is take an enumeration of the rationals and take the union of balls of with radius epsilon/2^n over this enumeration. And you can create dense open subsets of the real numbers, that miss basically every real number. Despite containing an open interval around every rational. The conclusion I’ve come to is the real numbers don’t make any sense.

Re:Cantor function, a.k.a. devil's staircase by Dylan16807 on Friday June 12, 2020 @03:08AM (#23496809)
> The conclusion I’ve come to is the real numbers don’t make any sense.

Oh they definitely don't.

Almost all real numbers are uncomputable, which means they cannot be written down or communicated in any way.

Re:Cantor function, a.k.a. devil's staircase by sukilot on Friday June 12, 2020 @06:42PM (#23504623)
Real numbers aren't real.

Imaginary numbers aren't imaginary.

Infinities are unphysical, so you can understand them by analogy to anything that exists in the real Universe.