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Off topic, but I believe naming this specific kind of numbers "real" is a misnomer. Nothing in reality is expression of a real number. Real numbers pop up only
by scotty79 2y ago
Off topic, but I believe naming this specific kind of numbers "real" is a misnomer. Nothing in reality is expression of a real number. Real numbers pop up only when we abstract reality into mathematical models.
In Polish language rational numbers are called something more like "measurable" numbers and in my opinion that's the last kind of numbers that is expressed in reality in any way. Those should be called "real" and real should be called something like "abstract" or "limiting" because they pop-up first as limits of some process working on rational numbers for infinite number of steps.