Re:How real are real numbers? (2004)
by protonfish on Monday April 10, 2017 @04:43PM
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Numbers are not physical things, they are symbols that are part of a system that has changed significantly over years. We can make a metaphorical link between a number and a measurement of our universe, but that does not mean that numbers are part of the physical world.
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They may not be part of our physical world but that does not mean they don't exist independently:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/platonism-mathematics/#Ex...