Starter mathematicians might think everything is math.
Senior mathematicians lose their sleep whenever they think about what our math is missing and they don't know what it is yet
Starter mathematicians might think everything is math.
Senior mathematicians lose their sleep whenever they think about what our math is missing and they don't know what it is yet
Do we have ways of computing orders of infinity higher than ℵ₀?
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Your meme doesn't work in the age of floating point numbers.
Suggestion: "1.0/x for x>0→0.0 goes against infinity, so 1.0/0.0 is infinity."
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Any sufficiently large number is indistinguishable from infinity.
Wait. Something's wrong...
O(n^m^) = O(1) for all n,m < infinity.
Floats are actually fairly limited in what they can do and you lose a lot of accuracy at some point
So that they can be taxed, of course.
Computable. There are countably many computable numbers since there are only countably many possible programs. Non-computable numbers can't be exactly referred to / described / constructed by a program, so if your point of view is that everything is a program, you would say they don't exist.
homotopy type theory has a way to describe the reals in full generality via cauchy sequences, so if type checking ever gets proven to be decidable, this won't be true any longer. it's chapter 11 in the hott book.
I guarantee you're misunderstanding or accidentally misrepresenting something here. The fact that there are only countably many computable numbers is a simple consequence of the fact that there are only countably many programs, which is bounded above by the number of finite sequences of letters from a finite alphabet, which is countably infinite.
There may be more finitistic/computable models for the real numbers or something, but "the computable real numbers" are countable.
the model provided is a lazy cauchy sequence so any given real number can be computed to arbitrary precision. the theorems about real numbers are directly provable and potentially machine checkable, assuming decidable type checking works out.
my point exactly
The universe is actually a computer program
The mind is actually a computer program
When someone has a hammer everything looks like a nail.
When someone is paid a lot of money because they have that hammer, the belief that everything is a nail seems backed by self-assigned genius and unique insight.
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