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# What the fuck is a number?

Okay so like this _should_ be an easy enough question to answer, but of course it isn't cause when is anything ever simple on this godforsaken plane of existence.

## Naturals

Let's start with the caveman shit, **Natural Numbers ($\mathbb{N}$)** (god I really hope latex renders here). This is the stuff every 3 year old knows, $1,2,3,\ldots$. Seems basic enough because it is.

Just fucking kidding is $0$ a natural number? who knows, I sure as shit don't.

Also, like what exactly _is_ $0$ or $1$?

> I mean if we want to use the Zermelo-Fraenkel definition, $0 = \{\},  1 = \{0\},  2 = \{0,1\}, \dots$ ad absurdum

## Ordinals

Okay so baby steps, now that we have some semblance of a place to start, we can move onto the **ordinals**. The ordinals are basically numbers used for putting things in order. How are they different from the naturals?

Short answer: they aren't
Long answer: ...for finite numbers

## Cardinals

### Aleph and Beth

## Zero

## Integers

## Rationals

## Algebraics?

## Reals

## Complex Numbers

### Vectors

### Matrices

## 2D Hypercomplex

## Quaternions

## Octonions and Sedenions

## RGB

### Color Charge

## Surreal Numbers

## Algebraic Structures

## p-adics

# Conclusion

> Q: What the fuck is a number?
> A: A miserable pile of math