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On 21/07/2015 10:10, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se>:
>
>> In a message of Mon, 20 Jul 2015 20:30:48 -0700, Rustom Mody writes:
>>
>>> Can some unicode/Chinese literate person inform me whether that
>>> ideograph is equivalent to roman '9' or roman 'nine'?
>>
>> Ah, I don't understand you. What do you mean roman 'nine'? a phonetic
>> way of saying things? What bankers use to help prevent forgeries?
>> Something else?
>
> This is getting deep. It is an embarrassing metamathematical fact that
> numbers cannot be defined. At least, mathematicians gave up trying a
> century ago.
>
> In mathematics, the essence of counting a set and finding a result n,
> is that it establishes a one to one correspondence (or bijection) of
> the set with the set of numbers {1, 2, ..., n}.
> <URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting#Counting_in_mathematics>
>
> Our ancestors defined the fingers (or digits) as "the set of numbers."
> Modern mathematicians have managed to enhance the definition
> quantitatively but not qualitatively.
>
Not all of them
http://www.languagesandnumbers.com/how-to-count-in-paici/en/pri/
--
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.
Mark Lawrence
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