This looks like a candidate for the not-yet-existing book “The Simple Math of Everything”. But the explanation would have to be the real explanation, involving how we construct the “real numbers” and why we construct them that way.
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This looks like a candidate for the not-yet-existing book “The Simple Math of Everything”. But the explanation would have to be the real explanation, involving how we construct the “real numbers” and why we construct them that way.