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Can you write down the complete decimal expansion of let's say sqrt(5) ?

• xanderlewis 3y ago
  No; it’s infinitely long and non-repeating. Are you trying to refute my original comment? I think we’re on the same page.
  • ludston 3y ago
    Since you can't write down this number, how can you generate a second number using this number? You'll never finish generating the first number in order to start the second. You can come up with a bunch of procedures that generate numbers indefinitely, and you can even define relationships between those procedures, but a procedure is not a number.
    • xanderlewis 3y ago
      I don’t know what you’re talking about. Are you responding to something I’ve said?