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| Oct 5, 2017 at 8:43 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | @Hurkyl: 'infinite precision' is an expected answer if you subscribe to a continuum picture of infinite divisibility, I don't think that's been settled yet. | |
| Oct 5, 2017 at 8:39 | comment | added | user6559 | Maybe I should give an example of what I mean. For a question like "How far is it from here to there?" an infinite answer would suggest something has broken down. For a question like "How many distinct places are there in the universe?" or "How much precision does the real world have?", an infinite answer is among the expected possibilities and doesn't suggest a breakdown. (and, of course, questions like "how many integers are there?") | |
| Oct 5, 2017 at 8:26 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | @Hurkyl: infinite precision is different from the infinitely large; however, in what I've written above, I'm taking for granted that all procedures for extracting or placing a finite number have been tried at the time the model was constructed - hindsight is a wonderful thing... | |
| Oct 2, 2017 at 21:16 | comment | added | user6559 | The appearance of infinity is only a sign that our modelling as broken down when it appears in a place where the model should have, for example, a real number. | |
| Oct 2, 2017 at 8:20 | history | edited | Mozibur Ullah | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 29, 2017 at 2:45 | history | answered | Mozibur Ullah | CC BY-SA 3.0 |