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Comment by smadge | Hacker News Reader
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smadge
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Numbers aren’t real.
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threatofrain
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In casual terms, many number systems are "real enough" for people because they seem to form an adequate theory for modeling problems.
smadge
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True but then the question should be “how well does this fake thing model this real thing?” Not “does this fake thing exist?”
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