Finiteness assumption in explorable media

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Explorable and interactive media seem to bake in an assumption of finiteness, which makes it challenging to interact with the infinite and arbitrary objects that appear in mathematics.

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The kind of explorable medium that I'm interested in would somehow encode the proof-writing/proof-generating process so the user can do real math. But how do you prove things about e.g. an arbitrary compact metric space? How would you "explore" something that requires a proof by contradiction (which would require representing impossible situations)?