• Question: were numbers discovered or invented?

    Asked by 11hobsonp to Jono on 24 Jun 2013.
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      Jono Bone answered on 24 Jun 2013:

      Hey 11hobsonp,

      Thats a really great question!

      I think your’ll get a different answer depending on who you asked. I think quantities are an eternal truth and so were discovered but numbers themselves were invented to describe these quantities. So very diplomatically both!

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