• cpw@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    The set of all rational numbers has zero size in the real numbers. And yet, they’re fucking dense, meaning you can find a rational arbitrarily close to any real number. I mean, what the fuck?

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      1 year ago

      That’s it, I’m Amish now. I use inches and fractions of inches, and that’s as far as my numbers need to take me