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the_fallyesterday at 9:48 PM1 replyview on HN

> I believe real numbers to be completely natural,

Most of real numbers are not even computable. Doesn't that give you a pause?


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creatayesterday at 11:20 PM

Why would we expect most real numbers to be computable? It's an idealized continuum. It makes perfect sense that there are way too many points in it for us to be able to compute them all.

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