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Re:Do the Real Numbers Exist? by zeebeecee on Saturday April 09, 2022 @11:45PM (#30974319)
Do integers exist? Do sequences of integers exist? If they do, so do the real numbers.

This is because any positive real number has a decimal expansion which determines it. For example pi = 3.1415926535... or 1/3 = 0.3333333...

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Re:Do the Real Numbers Exist? by magneticnorth on Sunday April 10, 2022 @01:04AM (#30974606)
Do infinite sequences of integers exist? Especially all the ones that can't be compressed into a finite description? I don't think that's clear at all.
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