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You in fact did write down "Graham's number" and "googleplex". Most real numbers cannot even be written down as a finite sequence of symbols in any way. However for algebraic numbers ("Plenty of irrational numbers"), every single one has a finite description.

There are uncountably many reals and only a countable number of "names" we can give them. This is a very real problem that makes people say that the real numbers are not real.

parent thethirdone 4 years ago

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