leave it to mathematicians to give the name "normal number" to a very specific type of number

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I mean yeah almost all (in the mathematical sense) real numbers are normal but no rational numbers are and rational numbers are the majority of what people work with

also there are only like, three specific numbers known to be normal and at least one of them is impossible to compute

@Felthry okay what REALLY messes with me is "real numbers". like you mean to tell me that my whole life I've been messing with these fake numbers???

@poss_bot well you've probably been mostly messing with real numbers, but imaginary is just an unfortunate quirk of terminology

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