• Kogasa@programming.dev
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    7 months ago

    For that matter, the real numbers are fake as fuck. “Ah yes, let’s just throw in uncountably many non-computable numbers.” They have played us for absolute fools.

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      7 months ago

      Big math is laughing at us right now

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      7 months ago

      The set of all rational numbers has zero size in the real numbers. And yet, they’re fucking dense, meaning you can find a rational arbitrarily close to any real number. I mean, what the fuck?

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      7 months ago

      “there are as many even/odd/prime/composite numbers as there are numbers”

      g(63)? TREE(3)? BB(10^100)? Rayo’s Number? Fuck outta here with that fake bullshit