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Re:What Even Is a Number? by WilliamEdward on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @06:44PM (#19204176)
I think they're just trying to say "1" is not a tangible object in the physical universe, not that it does not exist as a concept. The natural numbers are just data, information, they don't exist beyond the first dimension except as descriptors to things in further dimensions, just like lines can be built up into higher dimensions but cannot be physically created for us to observe.

Maybe you're reading too much into this.

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Re:What Even Is a Number? by qubex on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @07:12PM (#19204369)
How is two straight lines crossing in one and only one place not an example of a single occurrence without reference to real world objects (which the OP dismissed as “not really being a number”).

As for reading “too much into this”, as Instated: Irma a mathematician, of course I’m going to take this seriously and make an effort to disprove naive misconceptions.

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