One can potentially consider finite integers as the most “real”, given that they correspond to discrete objects we can see, count and calculate.
Lots of numbers correspond to things. It seems arbitrary to say that integers are real numbers, because they correspond to discrete objects we see, but rotations aren’t numbers, even though they correspond to transformations we can make on an object.
Lots of numbers correspond to things. It seems arbitrary to say that integers are real numbers, because they correspond to discrete objects we see, but rotations aren’t numbers, even though they correspond to transformations we can make on an object.