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Most numbers are unimaginable 2025 Feb 19
When I think too hard about math it makes my brain hurt. Which is why I don't think too hard about math. This person named Ben Orlin on this blog called Math with Bad Drawings posts in 2016 while thinking too hard about math, and considers how many of the numbers in the existence of numbers (if numbers even exist at all) "cannot be touched by the human mind" and that "this is most numbers" ... oww brain hurty.
If you pick a random number between 0 and 1, you will arrive at a number that literally cannot be communicated or expressed. Sure, you can list the decimal digits, but if you ever stop, even after a trillion years, then you will have failed to specify your number – and there is no process by which you can tell a computer to carry on the job.
This is best summarized by the comment on the post from mr sock monkey who says:
monkey still not sure of definition of word number or if number have existence independent of human mind. when monkey read definition of number by mr russell it make simple brain of monkey spin.