Re:What Even Is a Number?
by empath75 on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @01:45PM
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You can consider almost anything a number if you can do some internally consistent operations with it.
Hamilton attempted a theory of triplets before setting on 4d quaternions, so that would be one example of a failed number system off the top of my head.
Hamilton attempted a theory of triplets before setting on 4d quaternions, so that would be one example of a failed number system off the top of my head.