Comment on Irrational
kogasa@programming.dev 4 months agoI’m fully aware of the definitions. I didn’t say the definition of irrationals was wrong. I said the definition of the reals is wrong. The statement about quantum mechanics is so vague as to be meaningless.
bstix@feddit.dk 4 months ago
Come on then, enlighten the average Joe.
kogasa@programming.dev 4 months ago
Google it? Axiomatic definition, dedekind cuts, cauchy sequences are the 3 typical ones and are provably equivalent.
wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
A real number is the set of both rational and irrational numbers. Nothing about continuous anything.
bstix@feddit.dk 4 months ago
It is exactly that though.
Irrationel and rational numbers are both real.
Quantum physics is limited to the quantum, hence the name.
wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Being continuous is not actually a requirement of being real.