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So fresh_42 said : This for some reason made me think about a physics class I had back in eleventh grade. The teacher was discussing "Dimensionless Quantities". So I did a quick Wikipedia search on dimensionless quantities to refresh my memory and found one line that said: It(a dimensionless...

I understand the counting part, I have rephrased my question below. Love the links. Hard to quickly absorb the material but I'm going to keep going. Thanks! I had already thought of the counting part before I asked the question, I agree with you. I have rephrased my question below. I've...

Hi all, some 3 a.m thoughts I had recently(spank me if this is a dumb question): Exactly as the topic, what do we mean by one? Have we measured one? One of a (book), one of a (pencil), one of a (human) all mean something with regard to counting but fundamentally, what is one? We went from...