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[–] kogasa@programming.dev 54 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

Big math is laughing at us right now

[–] cpw@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's it, I'm Amish now. I use inches and fractions of inches, and that's as far as my numbers need to take me

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

No that just makes you an American Mechanical Engineer.

[–] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Their subset, irrational numbers, is somehow worse

[–] funnystuff97@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"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

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah TREE(3) is so big, how can you possibly know that there are that many evens??