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minus-squarens1@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·2 months agoCounterpoint: if you say you have a number of things, you have at least two things, so maybe 1 is not a number either. (I’m going to run away and hide now)
minus-squareKusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months ago“I have a number of things and that number is 1”
minus-squareporl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoAnother Roof has a good video on this. At some points One was considered “just” the unit, and a Number was some multiple of units.
Counterpoint: if you say you have a number of things, you have at least two things, so maybe 1 is not a number either. (I’m going to run away and hide now)
“I have a number of things and that number is 1”
Another Roof has a good video on this. At some points One was considered “just” the unit, and a Number was some multiple of units.