Answer by user14972 for What questions become answerable/computable given an...
Note that this question is as much about physics and engineering as it is about mathematics!It is a physics question because we are concerned about the "real world", and what mathematical models that...
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I don't know about your first question, although it seems safe to say that there are only finitely many characters that can be distinguished by human eyes at 1 meter. Similarly, for any particular...
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If you follow that line of thinking, you don't need any computation to represent real numbers; you can just make a pair of lines denote their distance (in some units). (If you don't want to be...
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Having reached the concluding portion of my first course in real analysis, one subject that I feel was not adequately addressed was the issue of cardinalities. This is a subject I was interested in...
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