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Comment by throwaway81523

8 months ago

The truth value of the continuum hypothesis is either 1 or 0 (at least from a platonistic perspective). But, it is proven to be independent of ZFC. No huge numbers involved, just a single bit whose value ZFC doesn't tell you.

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