kogasa

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

There can't really be an argument either way. It's just a matter of convention. "Natural" is just a name, it's not meant to imply that 1 is somehow more fundamental than -1, so arguing that 0 is "natural" is beside the point

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

Ehh, among American academic mathematicians, including 0 is the fringe position. It's not a "debate," it's just a different convention. There are numerous ISO standards which would be highly unusual in American academia.

FWIW I was taught that the inclusion of 0 is a French tradition.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Limits at infinity are one thing, but infinite ordinals are meaningfully used in set theory and logic

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The question doesn't make sense, there are many things which have an infinite quality (like infinite cardinality) or are called infinite/infinity (like infinite cardinals and ordinals). They're not contradictory. They coexist the same as all finite things do.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I dunno about proving you wrong, but the fact that you can comfortably say there is no largest natural number is kind of a belief in infinity

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Holomorphicity is equivalent to (or defined as) being differentiable in a nonempty, connected, open set, so it's not asking much. Even then, functions which fail to be holomorphic can often be classified in a similarly rigid way.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That would make it impure

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I'll take the stick and use it to make you give me the rock.

[โ€“] [email protected] 114 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Monkey laundering.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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