Can a number (quantity) have unique properties?

[Edisonian]

Can a number in of itself hold certain powers?

[MolecularMan14]

what certain powers do you mean?

[bloodhound]

maybe superpowers which allow the numbers to lift massive objects, see through walls and calculate the nth digit of pi.

[MolecularMan14]

lol in 5th grade, I was actually so bored in math after I had finished and everyone else was still on problem #5, I took the time and effort to memorize the first buncha digits of pi

3.14159265358979323846248...i forget...CRAP

[bloodhound]

i actually remember the square roots of all the integers from 1 to 10.. to 11 decimal places hehe. i forgot now

[Treadstone]

the irrational numbers have unique properties...in fact its what makes them irrational

[Martin]

Can a number (quantity) have unique properties?

 

I think of numbers and physical QUANTITIES as entirely different. Quantities are not numbers but actual amounts---like an amount of mass, or an amount of volume, or amount of speed, or electric charge, or force.

 

How about you? Do you think a physical quantity is the same thing as a number, or different? what number do you associate with the charge on the electron?

what number do you associate with your lung-capacity, or with the mass of an electron?

 

the number you associate is probably irrelevant. what matters is the amount itself

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assuming number and quantity are very different (connected only where you introduce a standardized unit)

then you have asked two questions.

 

1. Can a quantity have unique and special properties? Yes, the speed of light is an amount of speed which has unique special properties.

 

2. Can a number have special properties? Answer: yes, for example the number pi has special properties.

 

for that matter the number one has unique properties---it is the only number whose square is equal to itself