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When Donald Trump began campaigning in 2016 his supporters cryptically described his platform as "he's saying what everybody's secretly thinking!"

Naturally, I initially assumed this is what they meant-- that real numbers are bullshit. Unfortunately I was way, way off.

Anyway, real numbers are bullshit! Linus and Willard are saying what everybody's secretly thinking!

Things that bother physicists but not mathematicians