• Kogasa@programming.dev
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      5 months ago

      Google it? Axiomatic definition, dedekind cuts, cauchy sequences are the 3 typical ones and are provably equivalent.

    • wholookshere
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      A real number is the set of both rational and irrational numbers. Nothing about continuous anything.

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        5 months ago

        It is exactly that though.

        Irrationel and rational numbers are both real.

        Quantum physics is limited to the quantum, hence the name.

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          Being continuous is not actually a requirement of being real.