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>We can not obtain them to feed them as input, our real-world machines can not process them if we could...

I'm not sure about this. We often make calculations with computer representations of real numbers. We can calculate quantities based on algebraic or transcendental numbers with arbitrary precision (optimizations, navigation), or we can use them as a basis (image processing) and represent rational numbers in their terms. Real numbers are all over computer applications.

parent mike00632 7 years ago

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