Prime Numbers are the building blocks of Mathematics...What is that supposed to mean?

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The_Mathemagician1

1, -1, i, -i, +/-1+/-i, as well as 0 are the true fundamental numbers of Mathematics.

And any natural number n, can be measured as (1+1...n times).

Excluding 0, all the fundamental numbers in the 1st paragraph are simple derived from 1.

 

shadowhb123
I guess since people thought of them as like 1, it can only be gotten by multiplying by itself or 1, but for 1, some people overlook that itself and 1 are the same.
So it’s actually further down on the building block tree than prime numbers
The_Mathemagician1

It could reasoned that Prime Numbers are the real compute-er

With the natural numbers, n, and m. n can be measured m times.

So I suppose they are the building blocks of Math.

 

grrimgood

i think numbers in general are probably the building blocks of math

The_Mathemagician1
grrimgood wrote:

i think numbers in general are probably the building blocks of math

 

Why did you even post that, Sir?

KingDoomYTX
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The_Mathemagician1

Then there are;

+/-infinity, +/-infinity i, +/-infinity+/-infinity i 

grrimgood
The_Mathemagician1 wrote:
grrimgood wrote:

i think numbers in general are probably the building blocks of math

 

Why did you even post that, Sir