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Comment by nphardon

2 hours ago

If the universe contains a finite amount of information, would that disprove the existence of an infinite set? I.e. if the representation of a number contained more information than the amount of information available in the entire universe.

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benmandrew  2 hours ago

It's a very interesting idea; if you want to learn more about it, look up "ultrafinitism".

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