>>13705127it can't be measured practically, but theoretically if we had an infinitely precise instrument and measured each decimal place successively we'd certainly end up with 1.4142...
or are you saying the diagonal doesn't exist or isn't sqrt2?
what is it then?
I haven't watched too much wildberger but it seems to me that he's upset mostly about decimal representation, not that he thinks that there aren't such numbers in theory (key word in theory, and in fact it's impossible to disagree because these numbers are simply defined to be that way).
Also if you had a diagonal with an integer value, shifting it by the smallest value would make it irrational. If we did that with sticks again would that suddenly make the value change from a nice integer to "immeasurable''
ridiculous.
