What's in a number?

Answer 1

a natural number is an entity that satisfies the following axioms:

1. Zero is a number.

2. If a is a number, the successor of a is a number.

3. zero is not the successor of a number.

4. Two numbers of which the successors are equal are themselves equal.

5. If a set S of numbers contains zero and also the successor of every number in S, then every number is in S.

Answer 2

0. Everything and nothing. The All

1. Individual. Aggressor (positive enforcer as opposed to negative receptive). Yang.

2. Balance. Union. Receptive. Yin.

3. Communication/interaction. Neutrality.

4. Creation.

5. Action.

6. Reaction/flux. Responsibility.

7. Thought/consciousness.

8. Power/sacrifice.

9. Completion.

10. Rebirth.

These are basic definitions. Each practicing numerologist will have a wider definition and understanding of each number, and how they interact with each other.

Answer 3

Whereas 7 (plus or minus 2) is the mantra for structured writing and other methods for organizing information, 5 (plus or minus 2) is the mantra for the number of participants needed in a usability test.

Answer 4

A number is nothing, only a representation of something that always has, and always will be.

Example, "3" will always mean less than "4" and greater than "2"

"3" will never be "4" but will always remain "3".

So, numbers themselves do not exist, they are arbitrary symbols we use explain quantity.

Answer 5

Other little numbers that make it up? All numbers? Fractions of numbers? Infinity?

Interesting question to ponder on a philosophical as well as mathematical level...

*blinks at you by opening & closing her hands*

Answer 6

Eternity

Answer 7

inside a number is nothing, time and numbers dont exist, we do

Answer 8

The basis for mathematics and science. Also the basis for mental perception of good and evil, or neither of them (1,2,3). 3 is all we need to form judgments (this, that, or neither).

Answer 9

Possibly the sum of two primes.

Answer 10

The count.