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Quote: the computable numbers are the real numbers whose decimal expression can be calculable by finite means; because human memory is limited

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The "computable" numbers may be described briefly as … For the present I shall only say that … [for this] lies in the fact that the human memory is necessarily …   Google-1   Google-2

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