• marcos@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      I still think some largish prime, like 37 hits the perfect spot of being usable enough for people to use, but still useless enough to stop almost everybody from learning any advanced math.

      But yeah, making integers non-representable is a serious trade-off that deserves consideration.