How about ANY FINITE SEQUENCE AT ALL?

  • मुक्त
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    14 months ago

    0.101001000100001000001 . . .

    Might very well be :

    0.101001000100001000001202002000200002000002 …

    Real life, is different from gamified questions asked in student exams.

    • cosecantphi [he/him, they/them]
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      4 months ago

      Implicitly defining a number via it’s decimal form typically relies on their being a pattern to follow after the ellipsis. You can define a different number with twos in it, but if you put an ellipsis at the end you’re implying there’s a different pattern to follow for the rest of the decimal expansion, hence your number is not the same number as the one without twos in it.

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          4 months ago

          Math kind of relies on assumptions, you really can’t get anywhere in math without an assumption at the beginning of your thought process.

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            14 months ago

            Obviously. But still maths avoids stuff like “I assume the answer is X. QED.”

            • cosecantphi [he/him, they/them]
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              4 months ago

              Right and the point of defining this number as a non-repeating infinite sequence of 0s and 1s is just to show that non-repetition of digits alone is not sufficient to say a number contains all finite sequences.