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colanderman | 6 months ago

Not all reals are expressible: to be expressible is to have a finite representation in some language. Definable numbers [1] are that (countably infinite) subset of the reals which can be expressed individually. Almost all reals are not definable and therefore cannot be individually named.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definable_real_number

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