Do numbers actually exist?

[MWresearch]

Well , let's say there's a bowling ball dropping in 3D space on some planet that follows the parabola -x^2+3. If a person was standing next to that bowling ball, where would they look in physical reality to see the solution -x^2+3=4? The solution is of course imaginary, but no where can a person physically see the solution +/- i.

Edited April 24, 2015 by MWresearch

[studiot]

studiot

Because if we count reals in order from 0 to1 we have counted an infinity of numbers.

 

mwresearch

just because we focus on the integers 0 and 1.

 

You misread what I wrote

 

Counting reals means counting every real, not just focusing on two of them.

Edited April 24, 2015 by studiot

[MWresearch]

 

You misread what I wrote

 

Counting reals means counting every real, not just focusing on two of them.

Counting a set of all reals does, but counting the specific integers 0 and 1 means nearly the opposite; it means specifically picking out the numbers 0 and 1 out of all numbers that exist.