It’s 2 plus 1
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yesman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s not like the regular numbers behave themselves. Have you ever heard a coherent, non-self referential definition of the number 3?
gezero@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
protist@retrofed.com 2 months ago
Oh yeah? Prove it
ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 2 months ago
λ f. λ x. f (f (f x))
BlackRoseAmongThorns@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Succs to succ.
CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Half life f(x) confirmed?
QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
3 is a sideways nutsack
bhamlin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
W is a nutsack getting elaborately crushed
lena@gregtech.eu 2 months ago
That is an L actually
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well, it’s a W in my book.
socsa@piefed.social 2 months ago
=3
anise@awful.systems 2 months ago
{{},{{}}} (I think)
WilloftheWest@feddit.uk 2 months ago
That would be 2. 3 would be {{},{{}},{{},{{}}}}.
anise@awful.systems 2 months ago
is not ø 0, {} 1, {{}} 2 and {{},{{}}} three? or do we not count ø
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 months ago
3 = . . .
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes. In fact, just earlier today, my buddy Darryl was telling me about a coherent, non-self preferential definition of the number 3. It’s not a big deal. People do that stuff all the time.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
2+1?
arctanthrope@lemmy.world 2 months ago
the only numbers that actually exist are 0 and 1. everything else is a reference to those
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
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
arctanthrope@lemmy.world 2 months 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…