Yes. I think the mathematicians were lucky that it didn’t happen on the sort of integers they were discussing (there was, after all, great discussion about irrational numbers, zero , later imaginary numbers, and even Archimedes’ attempt to describe big integers was probably not without controversy ).
Yes. I think the mathematicians were lucky that it didn’t happen on the sort of integers they were discussing (there was, after all, great discussion about irrational numbers, zero , later imaginary numbers, and even Archimedes’ attempt to describe big integers was probably not without controversy ).