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Old 05-26-2022, 04:17 PM   #11
Anthony
 
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Default Re: Gaming philosophy conundra

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Originally Posted by whswhs View Post
It seems as if it still must be the case that if you represent every number on the apeirohedron as a decimal (which is how Lovewyrm chose to represent them), there must be many numbers whose representation has infinitely many digits and therefore counts as a "sword" of infinite length.
You are guaranteed arbitrary length but not infinite length. I'm actually curious what the difference between a polyhedron with aleph-0 sides and a sphere (same cardinality as the reals; if the continuum hypothesis is true this would be aleph-1) would be.
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