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Integers, Pi, and Number Lines.

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TimFox:
Also, 1/7 = 0.14285714...  can't be expressed as a finite number of decimal digits.  Big deal!  Live with it!

ebastler:
You guys are operating with those absurd "fractions", which according to P. T. don't exist either...

And I assume "zero" is an illusion as well, since how can "nothing" be a thing? And let's do away with the stupid "infinity" concept while we are at it. And don't get me started about "negative" numbers!

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: ebastler on July 04, 2022, 04:20:26 pm ---You guys are operating with those absurd "fractions", which according to P. T. don't exist either...

And I assume "zero" is an illusion as well, since how can "nothing" be a thing? And let's do away with the stupid "infinity" concept while we are at it. And don't get me started about "negative" numbers!

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Don't stop at infinity - start there with the aleph numbers introduced by Georg Cantor.

ℵ0 (aleph-nought, also aleph-zero or aleph-null) is the cardinality of the set of all natural numbers, and is an infinite cardinal. A set has cardinality ℵ0  if and only if it is countably infinite. FFI see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: Peter Taylor on July 04, 2022, 01:19:13 pm ---"Square root 5" is an unevaluated question: "What number multiplied by itself equals 5" ?

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Clearly someone that can't understand the basic premise of algebra. Nuff said :)

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: tooki on July 04, 2022, 01:44:32 pm ---Honey, you can’t just go around making up your own rules and definitions about mathematics.  :palm:

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Politicians and others looking to deceive can and do :(

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