>>12039271i is not in the real numbers, that's not what was asked.
But if you insist, i is an imaginary number denoting 1 i. Therefore if you have 1+i apples you have one real apple and one imaginary apple.
Still a very real concept. not abstract at all.
pi and e are just decimal numbers. So you have 3 apples and .1415... apples
so what if it has infinite decimal numbers? it's not like we can't more precisely cut the apple.
numbers are only abstract in that the remove the term 'apple'. But they are very real concepts and are equal and just as abstract as the concept of quantity.
>3 in "3 apples" isn't somehow different from the one in "3 oranges"That's my point though. They are not abstract, they are very real. Whether you say 3 apples or 3 oranges is irrelevant and they can easily be compared as 3 is a real and existing concept. It is not abstract at all. You can definitely compare oranges to apples and see that they are equal if you have 3 apples and 3 oranges.