Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> It also is interesting to consider things like Chaitin's number or "the 
> smallest uninteresting number" or other finite descriptions that name a 
> number but you can't tell which number they name.

  Well, not all numerical concepts have an actual numerical value because
there simply isn't a number that represents the concept. For example,
"the smallest real number which is larger than zero" does not exist.

  Other numerical definitions are inconcrete. For example 'epsilon' is an
"arbitrarily small positive quantity".

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