Significance of numbers

[littlebabyjesus]

Pedant's answer:

Numbers exist in an abstract idealised mathematical space. We use that idealised system as a model by which to understand the universe, but numbers don't, properly speaking, exist outside it.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Number 2 is the most significant. One is a unity but has no significance until another One appears making Two. From then on any number can be had up to infinity.

The number 0 is also important because without it negative numbers are impossible. Although 0 is not really a number but a position in the number sequence. It is a bit like black not being a colour, but for practical purposes it is.

 

[HobgoblinMan]

Every year at the Lakeside it's "One Hundred and Eiiiighteeeeey"

 

[HobgoblinMan]

It is a bit like black not being a colour, but for practical purposes it is.

Bollocks. It is a colour.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Number 2 is the most significant. One is a unity but has no significance until another One appears making Two. From then on any number can be had up to infinity.

I don't quite agree with this. If you have 1 and 0 (something and nothing), the concept of 2 already exists.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

For the demon shall bear a nine-bladed sword. Nine-bladed! Not two or five or seven, but nine, which he will wield on all wretched sinners, sinners just like you, sir, there

... And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it." Amen.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

I don't quite agree with this. If you have 1 and 0 (something and nothing), the concept of 2 already exists.

Interesting, but once the concept of two exists then it is necessary to invent the symbol for that concept which is 2. In fact you have made me realise that without the concept of 2 then 0 could not exist. I am not sure but I think the number 0 was added (if you can add 0) quite late in the history of numbers by the Chinese. Perhaps they needed it so that they could invent gunpowder.

 

[belboid]

33

along with 45 and 78

 

[Hocus Eye.]

For the demon shall bear a nine-bladed sword. Nine-bladed! Not two or five or seven, but nine, which he will wield on all wretched sinners, sinners just like you, sir, there

And Yea he shall be known as Gillette the Mighty.

 

[Santino]

And his name shall be called Jil'hett.

And Yea he shall be known as Gillette the Mighty.

In your own time, son, in your own time.

 

[goldenecitrone]

Prime.

Indeed. The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic states that every positive integer (except 1) can be expressed in exactly one way as the product of one or more primes.

 

[Jonti]

e^(i * pi) = -1

Marvellous. But why?

 

[Vintage Paw]

69.

Ect.

 

[ericjarvis]

Zero and one, you can build the rest from there.

 

[kropotkin]

Zero isn't an integer number as far as I remember- isn't it undefined?

 

[Refused as fuck]

...isn't it undefined?

Your face is undefined.

 

[hipipol]

By numbers I suppose you mean whole positive integers, in which case the indiviual numbers in themselves have no intrinsic specialness
It also avoids 0 -Zero - the notion of which underpins so much of our daily lives

As in the sentence: "You have fucking Zero understanding of what you're on about"!!!

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Zero isn't an integer number as far as I remember- isn't it undefined?

Well it isn't a fraction. You cannot divide by it and you cannot divide it. So it must be an integer. Undefined is a bit of a cop-out really.

 

[Jonti]

1) The difference between two integers is always integer (in the sense that three is the difference between seven and ten).

2) Zero is the difference between an integer and itself.

therefore zero is an integer

 

[purves grundy]

5

 

[Santino]

Well weapon

 

[fela fan]

3.

It represents and covers the whole human universe. Everything comes into 3.

While on the other hand, 2 is to be avoided. Duality is our entrapment...

 

[butchersapron]

Do shut up

 

[NoEgo]

I guess it has to be fibonacci numbers? Building blocks of the universe?

 

[butchersapron]

and you

 

[fela fan]

Do shut up

You do change your mind mate. You'd be a useless british politician.