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# What the fuck is a number?
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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.
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## Naturals
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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.
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Just fucking kidding is $0$ a natural number? who knows, I sure as shit don't.
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Also, like what exactly _is_ $0$ or $1$?
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> I mean if we want to use the Zermelo-Fraenkel definition, $0 = \{\}, 1 = \{0\}, 2 = \{0,1\}, \dots$ ad absurdum
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## Ordinals
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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?
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Short answer: they aren't
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Long answer: ...for finite numbers
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## Cardinals
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### Aleph and Beth
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## Zero
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## Integers
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## Rationals
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## Algebraics?
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## Reals
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## Complex Numbers
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### Vectors
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### Matrices
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## 2D Hypercomplex
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## Quaternions
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## Octonions and Sedenions
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## RGB
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### Color Charge
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## Surreal Numbers
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## Algebraic Structures
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## p-adics
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# Conclusion
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> Q: What the fuck is a number?
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> A: A miserable pile of math
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