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It's quite definately an invention. This concept was proven by the discovery of a tribe in South America for which numbers have absolutely no meaning. They do not live with quantifiables. Also, as a child, you have to be taught how to count. It simply lends to the notion that math is an inventive use of our higher thinking processes.
Lot's of people will create philosophies based around various numbers that we can derrive out of our base 10 numbering scheme (pi, phi). How do you think it would be if humans only had 8 fingers, and thus used a base 8 numbering system instead?
Math is nifty, but it's not the truth.
Last edited by Halx; 10-19-2004 at 12:24 AM..
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