Is this a correct way to describe number sets?

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In summary: So ##1## is a special number because it doesn't have a predecessor, and all others have a successor and a predecessor.
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Compromise:

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Include 0 only half. Is that natural enough?
 
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mfb said:
Compromise:

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Include 0 only half. Is that natural enough?
We have to ask the Indians. As far as I know they have the copyright on the ##0##. I'm sure we've had numbers when we lived in Africa, but it took a civilization to use the ##0##. Probably some bookies ...
 
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fresh_42 said:
We have to ask the Indians. As far as I know they have the copyright on the ##0##. I'm sure we've had numbers when we lived in Africa, but it took a civilization to use the ##0##. Probably some bookies ...

Some tribes count as ##1,2,3,\text{many}##. So I deny that the number ##10## is very natural.
 
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micromass said:
Some tribes count as ##1,2,3,\text{many}##. So I deny that the number ##10## is very natural.
It's just another name for 2. :wink:
 
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