▲ 868 ▼ It'll be ok. Nobody's going to judge you. (media.piefed.world) submitted 1 week ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world 103 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] arctanthrope@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 child) the only numbers that actually exist are 0 and 1. everything else is a reference to those permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago (1 child) I can define zero as the absence of 1. But also 1 itself is a reference to the infinitely fractional 0.00...1 and I'd consider that a different number to the whole number 1 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] arctanthrope@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago that doesn't actually exist in the standard number system; there is no single real number that's immediately next to 0, you can always get closer. some number systems have infinitesimals, but real numbers don't. and any very small real number with a terminating decimal expression is simply the inverse of a very large number, which is simply a long string of 1+1+1+1+1... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago (1 child) I can define zero as the absence of 1. But also 1 itself is a reference to the infinitely fractional 0.00...1 and I'd consider that a different number to the whole number 1 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] arctanthrope@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago that doesn't actually exist in the standard number system; there is no single real number that's immediately next to 0, you can always get closer. some number systems have infinitesimals, but real numbers don't. and any very small real number with a terminating decimal expression is simply the inverse of a very large number, which is simply a long string of 1+1+1+1+1... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] arctanthrope@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago that doesn't actually exist in the standard number system; there is no single real number that's immediately next to 0, you can always get closer. some number systems have infinitesimals, but real numbers don't. and any very small real number with a terminating decimal expression is simply the inverse of a very large number, which is simply a long string of 1+1+1+1+1... permalink fedilink source parent
