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Re:What Even Is a Number? by hopler on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @08:35PM (#19204825)
Those "factor" zeros look like infinitesimal forms, which are well studied.
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Re:What Even Is a Number? by ajkjk on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @01:17AM (#19205990)
There is a similarity, but no one claims infinitesimals are _literally 0_, and certainly no one would claim that 2-2 = 2 epsilon.
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