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Comment by sjolsen

>The standard delta-epsilon type of reasoning crucially depends on existence of arbitrary reals.

What do you mean by "arbitrary?" Do you mean uncomputable? How does analysis require the existence of uncomputable reals?

>All numbers ever written are rationals and thus countable

It is also possible to "write" computable irrational numbers, more or less by definition.

parent sjolsen 9 years ago

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