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"...mathematics that represent continuous scales which would be best represented by the real numbers system with the limited significant digits."
If you limit the number of significant digits, your mathematics are discrete, not continuous. I'm guessing the concept you're really after is the idea of computable numbers. The set of computable numbers is a dense countable subset of the reals.