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bioemerl  ·  3736 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 8-Bit Philosophy - Philosophical works presented as retro video games

    The real numbers can't be seen, observed, and do not affect the physical world in any shape or way.

"Real" numbers do not exist in any state or form aside to describe constructs or states of objects in reality. It's a symbol, a shorthand, for something that does exist. Yes the word "pipe" does not exist, but pipes do.

The analysis of numbers analyzes them through applying rules to them that co-relate to those in real life.