tomasson

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   by tomasson 1y ago

   Yeah this is an understatement. Modern technology and the world economy require irrational numbers
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   by tomasson 1y ago

   Here’s my plug for p-adic numbers! So cool
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   by tomasson 1y ago

   “ Nature and the universe is all about continuous quantities; integral quantities and whole numbers represent an abstraction. ” Hard disagree. This is the problem with math disconnected from physics. The real world is composed of quanta and
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   by tomasson 1y ago

   Commutative? Did the real numbers create God? Certainly Turing and Godel showed that computation is not universal (complete). Looking at one element of number theory in isolation seems unproductive? Arithmetic space is staggeringly complex,