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> Almost all numbers cannot be practically expressed and it may even be that the probability of a random number being theoretically indescribable is about 100%. Depending on what a number is.

A common rebuke is that the construction of the 'real numbers' is so overwrought that most of them have no real claim to 'existing' at all.



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