Ultrafinitism

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I can't claim to know much about this topic, but this is something.

Intuitionists deny the existence of the infinite set N of natural numbers. In addition there are certain people, ultraintuitionists, who are concerned with our own physical constrictions in constructing mathematical objects. Thus some ultraintuitionists will deny the existence, for example, of the floor of Skewes' number ee^e^ 79.