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Did anyone understand this bit?

> The approaches using equivalence classes of Cauchy sequences ... suffer from an inability to identify when two “real numbers” are the same

Perhaps there's no computable general method, but it seems like it highlights an even bigger problem which remained unspoken. There is an inability to tell when a sequence of numbers approaches zero!

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