komponisto comments on Rationality Quotes March 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: komponisto 20 April 2012 09:13:14AM 1 point [-]

Technically limits work with Rational Numbers too, so that isn't an unique property either

No, they don't; that's precisely the point. There are Cauchy sequences of rational numbers which don't converge to any rational number. For an example, simply take the sequence whose nth term is the decimal expansion of pi (or your favorite irrational number) carried out to n digits.

Comment author: [deleted] 20 April 2012 09:19:52AM 1 point [-]

Noted and corrected.