/sci/ - Science & Math

The real numbers BTFO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXdFGbuAoF0&feature=youtu.be

I know it's old but it's still gold and he's right with every word - I'd even say with every letter coming out of his mouth and I'm not exaggerating.

If you thing "there is nothing wrong with R" or "R is a solid concept" then go and fuck yourself so hard I can't even find words for it.

An argument: The hand-wavy definition of R allows throwing together complex algorithms which erases the chance of finding relationships between them. F.e. there are many algorithms that generate Pi yet Pi is just a number in R and NOT A FUCKING COLLECTION OF ALGORITHMS WHICH IS ACTUALLY IS.

Why does it matter? - When you have a function that takes a long time to calculate and you want to write it more efficent it can often help to have an approximation of pi as a finite sum of rational numbers because then you can find relations of the rational elements of the finite sum and the rest of the numbers in your calculation - then you can cancel them out and make the code more efficient.
But thanks to R and fancy computers we just use a constant like 3.1415926535... that hides a lot of critical information about what is actually going on, destroying any hope in finding realations and creating something more efficient.

Yes the concept is usefull but it destroys a lot of analysability potential.

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I know he is well-respected here on /mg/ but why do you think mathematical plebs are so repulsed by his ideas, constantly misinterpreting him and calling him mean names without any arguments? You would think the plebs would be attracted to a finitist approach to mathematics.

Why haven't you retarded niggers accept lord wildberger as your patron saint of mathematics

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