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this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2024
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Relative: You know about computers, right?
Me: I'm not sure. Who knows about computers, really? In the words of W.S. McCulloch, "What is a number, that a man may know it, and a man, that he may know a number?" (if you'll pardon the gendered language) Now if you extend this to computation...
Relative: All right, STFU, I just wanted to know how to update my Amazon account...
What is a number, that a man may know it?
Lets start with natural numbers and define the integers, rational, real and complex numbers as solutions to certain equations.
Now you asked for to much.