Joel Dobrzelewski wrote:
>
> Ok, sorry for being a smart-ass. Instead of baiting the discussion
> to make my point, I'll try to simply state the position clearly.
>
> We humans cannot deal with infinite structures, like pi. Numbers
> like pi and e and Omega and all the others are the devil! :) And
> we all know the devil is in the details...
I think I made it obvious that pi and e are pretty simple objects, and
humans are quite capable of dealing with them (OK maybe not all humans
:). Omega, on the other hand, is quite a different beast again!
>
> We carry them along in our mathematics all the way to the "end" so
> that they can be "evaluated" in the final step.
>
> But I ask you: When does the universe evaluate its expressions?
>
AFAIC, this is a meaningless question.
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