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God created the real numbers

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athrowaway3z ◴[] No.45068256[source]
Can't say that I'm completely in the headspace to follow the argument, but wanted to add my 2 cents from a few years ago.

Integers come into existence long before god - as the only presumption required is a difference between one thing and another (or nothing). The integers also create infinite gaps. The primes.

So no - I do not think reals are closer to the divine. They require we import infinity twice to be defined, and I'm undecided on whether our reality has unbounded 'precision' like that - or if 'just' an infinite number of discrete units.

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1. prmph ◴[] No.45068938[source]
But all numbers are abstractions, there is nothing “real” (pun unintended) about any number, so it seems strange to me to judge certain numbers on whether they map to our physical reality.