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This is a great article in @QuantaMagazine about “ultrafinitism” - a (today) niche philosophical position in mathematics which rejects the reality of infinity and that of numbers bigger than those we can construct and handle directly. https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-can-we-gain-by-losing-infinity-20260429/ …and yes this anti-Huge Number philosophy is discussed in my book Huge Numbers: “[Edward] Nelson died in 2014, but it’s fair to assume that he would have greatly disapproved of this book.” https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/huge-numbers-a-story-of-counting-ambitiously-richard-elwes/c5ed5b22e218652a?ean=9781399818827&next=t