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roystgnr comments on The Number Choosing Game: Against the existence of perfect theoretical rationality - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: roystgnr 06 January 2016 01:30:51AM 0 points [-]

There exists an irrational number which is 100 minus delta where delta is infinitesimally small.

Just as an aside, no there isn't. Infinitesimal non-zero numbers can be defined, but they're "hyperreals", not irrationals.

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