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I'm simply demonstrating with this example that "real arithmetic" is nonsense. It's impossible to do, even in principle. The notions involved are too ambiguous, and this example demonstrates this well.
Of course you can't calculate the answer of pi+e because these concepts are all meaningless nonsense to begin with.
>sure, but make sure you define them by a constant sequence
Yeah that was what I expected you to answer. You are allowed to provide a general real number by an arithmetic algorithm yet whenever you do that you lose any notion of arithmetic, even on natural numbers. Most of the open problems in pure mathematics can be restated as the sum of natural numbers when viewed as real numbers. This is what I mean when I say the real numbers ruin everything. You can't even add two natural numbers anymore. When you start considering the real numbers as the most general set encompassing the rationals and naturals you lose any sense of what's actually going on, and resort to the endless sea of "let's assume" "suppose it can be done", "we haven't proved it can't be done!". This is seriously embarrassing.