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Re:Will Our Understanding of Math Deteriorate Over Time? by thaumasiotes on Friday July 10, 2015 @06:01AM (#9863087)
If you're going to work with Cauchy sequences, why bother defining the reals as Dedekind cuts? You can define them as Cauchy sequences of rationals.
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Re:Will Our Understanding of Math Deteriorate Over Time? by eli_gottlieb on Friday July 10, 2015 @09:59AM (#9863964)
Pugh mostly just wanted to be able to state the theorem that a sequence has a limit iff it is Cauchy convergent.
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