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murbard2
on June 7, 2015
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The Point of the Banach-Tarski Theorem – not just ...
Do you have an example?
Strilanc
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Presumably the axiom of choice is a good example of something unlikely to be applicable in a real world context. Unless you're trying to anticipate when a rogue mathematician is about to attack, of course.
(Also halting oracles.)
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