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Well, the last one is a kind of surprise like... if you believe in real numbers, then there are some nonrepeating real numbers (pi is believed to be one of them) that embed all other real numbers. I mean, to someone unfamiliar with the concept it sound amazing and improbable that some number embeds all other numbers (all of which are infinite). But this is because we aren't used to dealing with infinite things.

Similarly, if mathematics is so powerful as to be able to describe any physical reality, it shouldn't be surprising that it can describe ours, no matter how complex and detailed.



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