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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The set of all rational numbers has zero size in the real numbers. And yet, they're fucking dense, meaning you can find a rational arbitrarily close to any real number. I mean, what the fuck?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's it, I'm Amish now. I use inches and fractions of inches, and that's as far as my numbers need to take me

[–] ThePyroPython 3 points 1 year ago

No that just makes you an American Mechanical Engineer.