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Originally Posted by Herra1  So what do You think, can we ever understand the number 1 ?
Or is it like infinity ?
Too abstract to get hold of ? Me, i tend to think so.
Because im really facinated by what Newton did.
Showed that these abstractions that we draw and think, the world somehow corresponds or have relationship to them. |
I don't particularly have a problem understanding a 'real' number, have not got my mind around the square root of minus one though.
In the examples you have quoted so far one euro, one dollar etc. they are not just numbers... the BIPM/scientists/engineers might describe them as a value of a quantity:
value of quantity = number x unit
So long as we agree on the numbering system and on the units we should have no problem understanding one another or numbers?