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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

We're so used to dealing with real numbers it's easy to forget they're terrible. These puppies are a particularly egregious example I like to point to - functions that preserve addition but literally black out the entire x-y plane when plotted. On rational numbers all additive functions are automatically linear, of the form mx+n.

Hot take, but I really hope physics will turn out to work without them.