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A dumb consequence of the axiom of choice? The reals are like a membrane with no atomic pieces. You can move in either direction infinitely and you can zoom in infinitely without reaching any “Planck unit” so to speak. So what does it even mean to pick out a “real number”? To me anything built on this concept is nonsense.


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