<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 8, 2026, 2:41 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 08/10/2026 12:52, Jason Resch wrote:<br>
> I don't buy it. How can one finite act, by finite beings, in a finite universe, create infinite properties?<br><br>Doesn't the invention of real numbers create this situation?<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Someone, somewhere, was the first to create what is now known as Arabic numbers, with base 10 representation and no limit placed on how long the number could be. The numbering system thus created had infinite possibilities, though any specific expression - a specific instance of a specific number - requires a discrete finite act to create.</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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