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What is 2? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/mathmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 

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In ZFC set theory (which most of modern maths is built upon). The natural numbers are defined as recursions of empty sets.

Ie. 0 = ∅ (the empty set)

1 = {∅} = {0}

2 = {∅, {∅}} etc…

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[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And engineering is how you use it in the real world

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Engineer: 1.99999 is good enough.

[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Better just round it to 3 so I can use the π symbol and save space.

[–] sga@lemmings.world 0 points 9 months ago

might as well take a safety factor of 2, so I can use τ, which requires less tie to write than π (I am a engineer)

[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 0 points 9 months ago

If it was exactly 2 people would think you were falsifying results.

2 is the successor of 1

holup, what the hell is a "1"? did you mean to say succ(0) by chance?

[–] elevenbones@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago

Two can be as bad as one

It's the lonliest number since the number one

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Mathematics is the art of folding emptiness til it looks like meaning

I am Man I Fold, and thus I Am Math.