Why Numbers Exist

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why Numbers Exist
Stephen Downes, Half an Hour, March 4, 2013
People just take their existence for granted. But on Sunday I got a bug in my head about why they exist at all, and I couldn't get past it. So all work had to be set aside until I had worked it out. Sometimes it's rough being a polymath.

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