▲ 997 ▼ Making a difference, one date at a time. (thelemmy.club) submitted 3 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world [M] to c/memes@lemmy.world 111 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 child) I've heard people argue in both sides of "is 0 a natural number?". But I've never before encountered the "there are no natural numbers" argument. It's like flipping a coin and having it land sidewise. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] bstix@feddit.dk 1 point 3 months ago Yeah sorry I am a sideways coin when I get bored. It would be great if say .. two atoms .. were the same, so we could say that these are the same and that this is the definition of 1 and start counting and so on, but they're just not. It's fractals all the way down and up. The entirety of math requires an abstract definition that segments things to be the same like a pixelated resolution of reality. It only exists as an idea. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bstix@feddit.dk 1 point 3 months ago Yeah sorry I am a sideways coin when I get bored. It would be great if say .. two atoms .. were the same, so we could say that these are the same and that this is the definition of 1 and start counting and so on, but they're just not. It's fractals all the way down and up. The entirety of math requires an abstract definition that segments things to be the same like a pixelated resolution of reality. It only exists as an idea. permalink fedilink source parent
