Can numbers get so small (or so large) that there is kind of a “planck length” effect where you just can’t get any smaller? Or is it really possible to have 1.000000…(infinite)1
EDIT: I know planck length is not a mathmatical function, I just used it as an anology for “smallest thing technically mesurable,” hence the quotation marks and “kind of.”
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Math itself is not a fundamental part of the universe. It’s a conceptual tool that we use to describe it. The rules of the tool allow us to take any two numbers and derive a number that is greater than the first, but smaller than the second. So yeah…. math is infinite, assuming the universe is too. Here’s the catch: a number requires some way to be represented, be it on paper or in a mind. That representation requires *something* to exist. If that *something* has a limit, then the number would too.
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