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Excellent video by Dr. Wildberger explaining why concept of "real numbers" is rotten.

I second his call to research the sociology and history of these ideas, so we can put mathematics on sounder foundations.

YouTube Pure mathematics relies on a fake arithmetic | Sociology and Pure Mathematics | N J Wildberger Number systems are at the heart of mathematics --- and have been for at least 4000 years. The Egyptians' had a base 10 system that used fractions, albeit n...

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twetch#1832 5.9y

1Jj8Ts…sGot Key · twetch

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You might enjoy this @24

twetch#3375 5.9y

13bJsM…DNeu Key · twetch

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Ok thanks I'll have a look!

twetch#2854 5.9y

1SgPtS…9sDs Key · twetch

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Title is kind of click bait but he does make an interesting point : mathematics relies on being able to do an 'infinite number of tasks'
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twetch#2854 5.9y

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Expressiveness and tractability in knowledge representation and reasoning
http://www.inf.unibz.it/~franconi/dl/course/2006/articles/BrachLev.pdf

twetch#7453 5.9y

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@2518 ngl kinda feels like its all converging towards you nowadays 😁 (not that The Material Constructs needs any confirmation)

twetch#3375 5.9y

13bJsM…DNeu Key · twetch

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What does he think pi and e and sqrt(2) are if they're not numbers?

twetch#1832 5.9y

1Jj8Ts…sGot Key · twetch

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I can't speak for him, but I'd say they are formulas for the construction of numbers, not numbers themselves.

As you run more iterations of the formula, the number that's generated slightly changes / gets additional decimals added to it.

twetch#1832 5.9y

1Jj8Ts…sGot Key · twetch

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So, there's no fixed quantity that equals "the square root of two."

Instead, there's a symbol that represents a formula for the generation of numbers.

The generated numbers begin with 1.41 and get more decimals added with more cycles.

twetch#3375 5.9y

13bJsM…DNeu Key · twetch

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Well there definitely is a fixed quantity. You just can't write it out all at once.

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