>>9563310>>9563321The number 1 is a whole 'thing', and it can be divided into parts, it is composed of parts.
An object, baseball, tomato, apple, tree, cup, is a whole thing, that can be divided into parts, and is composed of parts.
There are 3 apples on the table.
Each apple is 1.
Except objects are not composed of infinite parts, as The Perfect Objects That Are Abstract Numbers are claimed to be...
If a number is composed of infinite parts... that means you can remove 1 piece from the number, infinitely, and never lessen the number?
That would be like taking infinite atoms away from an apple and still having a whole apple?
The system of numbers is a system of conviennce, and of perfect sense and proportion and order: and works perfectly (in most if not absolutely almost all areas), but gets a little sketchy with these 'seemingly' partially invented rule conceptions: like there are infinite quantities between any 2.
The rules apparently beg this to be the case, and at the same time logic appears to say something is very strange about this.
Because it is not real, and tangible, so much of the mapping, the conception and use of math works so well with what is real, and so much of it transposes so smoothly to the real (like 1 number 1. 1 apple. cut number 1 in half, get . 5 of number 1. cut apple in half get .5 of 1 apple)
but as you can find an apple and show me, I think it is a bit harder to go into nature and show me a .999999... infinitely repeating. You can find me 9 apples. and 999 apples. But good luck finding 999999999... infinitely repeating apples.
You can find me .999999999999999 apple: remove an electron from an apple.
But what would it mean to remove .999999....(infinitely repeating) from an apple?
Shave off a sliver of an electron? (if that were possible)
Shave off .9999999999999 of an electron?
