@St_Rev Just about to launch a long rant about this! :)
@St_Rev I was going to do a second whole rant about how the natural numbers are bad actually, contrary to “God made,” because you can multiply them, and you get division that way, and if you have division you get primes, and if you get primes you get number theory, and that is AWFUL,
@St_Rev whereas the reals are wonderful, people are scared because they encapsulate actual Lovecraftian infinities with tentacles, but you get continuity with them, so you can do calculus, and calculus is great, calculus is actually the foundation of THE WHOLE MODERN WORLD,
@St_Rev modernity is just “NEWTON ALL THE THINGS,” and so far as we know the tentacles never leak out so it’s OK, and yeah yeah Gödel so we can’t be sure that sometime maybe one of them will break open and the universe will be overrun with shoggoths, but FOR NOW the reals rule,
@St_Rev but that would have been silly, and anyway I have to spend the day working on my mother’s taxes
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