The catch is that you can't actually measure the rule-and-compass construction w...

		iitalics on Oct 19, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Church-Turing Thesis Cannot Possibly Be True [vide... The catch is that you can't actually measure the rule-and-compass construction with infinite precision. You can perform more operations on the construction and then measure later to verify that it produced the correct result, but so can a turing machine acting on a mere "representation" of the number.