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[-] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Computational complexity is exactly where the ultrafinitist argument gets interesting - in theory we can compute anything finitely, but in practice some calculations would require more atoms than exist in the observable univrse to complete, making them effectively "infinite" from a practical standpoint.

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