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Comment by Gro-Tsen on What's the earliest result (outside of logic) that cannot be proven constructively?

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The very first postulate in Euclid's Elements is “to draw a straight line from any point to any point” (“ᾘτήσθωἀπὸπαντὸςσημείουἐπὶπᾶνσημεῖονεὐθεῖανγραμμὴνἀγαγεῖν”). The fact that any two points in the plane $\mathbb{R}^2$ are connected by a line is equivalent to the robust division principle, which is not provable constructively.

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