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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

Technically you can't measure anything accurately because there's an infinite amount of numbers between 1 and 0. Whose to say it's exactly 1? It could be off by an infinite amount of 0s and 1.

Achilles and the Tortoise paradox.