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minus-squarens1@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28arrow-down4·7 months agoCounterpoint: if you say you have a number of things, you have at least two things, so maybe 1 is not a number either. (I’m going to run away and hide now)
minus-squareKusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·7 months ago“I have a number of things and that number is 1”
minus-squareassa123@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 months agoI have a number of friends and that number is 0
minus-squareCliff@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 months agoI have a number of money and number is -3567
minus-squareJDubbleu@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·7 months agoI’m willing to die on this hill with you because I find it hilarious
minus-squareporl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoAnother Roof has a good video on this. At some points One was considered “just” the unit, and a Number was some multiple of units.
Counterpoint: if you say you have a number of things, you have at least two things, so maybe 1 is not a number either. (I’m going to run away and hide now)
“I have a number of things and that number is 1”
I have a number of friends and that number is 0
I have a number of money and number is -3567
I’m willing to die on this hill with you because I find it hilarious
Another Roof has a good video on this. At some points One was considered “just” the unit, and a Number was some multiple of units.