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If you split one apple in two, you get two apples?
by GoblinSlayer 6y ago
If you split one apple in two, you get two apples?
- viklove 6y agoTechnically you have 0 apples, and you have 2 halves of an apple.
- emergie 6y ago"Split" means that you have defined division, which implies having rational numbers. In the beginning there were only Natural numbers. -1 appeared the moment one decided to define complementary operation to addition. -1 in reality is only a shorthand for "0-1", 0 comes here as neutral element of addition. Addition is well defined on Natural numbers. Subtraction generates Zahl numbers. Similarly multiplication is well defined on Zahl numbers. It's the complementary operation - division - that generates Quotient/rational numbers.