Revision as of 18:23, 4 April 2025 edit Trovatore (talk \| contribs) Autopatrolled, Extended confirmed users, Pending changes reviewers 39,125 edits →Simple proof that this is bullshit: all of them Tag: Reverted ← Previous edit		Revision as of 18:24, 4 April 2025 edit undo Trovatore (talk \| contribs) Autopatrolled, Extended confirmed users, Pending changes reviewers 39,125 edits Undid revision 1283956705 by Trovatore (talk) I suppose you can argue that infinitely many leading zeroes don't matter. Anyway the point isn't worth discussing Tag: Undo Next edit →
Line 1,346: :They don't become the natural numbers. Almost all of them will be infinitely long, and there are no infinitely long natural numbers. [[User:MartinPoulter\|MartinPoulter]] ([[User talk:MartinPoulter\|talk]]) 08:48, 3 April 2025 (UTC) :::<small>Actually all of them will be infinitely long. Not that it matters. There aren't any "terminating decimals", just ones that end in 000.... --[[User:Trovatore\|Trovatore]] ([[User talk:Trovatore\|talk]]) 18:23, 4 April 2025 (UTC) </small> ::That is only true if you don't allow natural numbers to be [[Actual infinity\|actual infinite]], which does not make any sense in an infinite universe. [[Special:Contributions/2A02:8109:40B:EF00:F805:A5D1:158:660B\|2A02:8109:40B:EF00:F805:A5D1:158:660B]] ([[User talk:2A02:8109:40B:EF00:F805:A5D1:158:660B\|talk]]) 14:37, 3 April 2025 (UTC) :::That all natural numbers are finite comes from any straightforward definition of the natural numbers, such as the [[Peano axioms]]. It's not a question of what I allow or don't allow, and it's nothing to do with the size of the universe. [[User:MartinPoulter\|MartinPoulter]] ([[User talk:MartinPoulter\|talk]]) 14:50, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

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