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## Saturday, February 19, 2011

### Foundation of the natural numbers

At last I found a more in depth explanation of the natural numbers. In this idea numbers are labels assigned to sets and adding 1 to a number represents a map between two sets. If we would analyze the mathematics of a hypothetical alien civilization we would see that they have natural numbers too, they just used different labels in their definition.

Mathematically it roughly works like the following:
Let A be the collection of all sets.

Let f be a map
f:A->A
a: |-> a U {a}

Assign label '0' to Emptyset
If a has label 'x' then assign label 'x+1' to f[a]

Label a f[a]  a U {a}
---------------------
0 Empty

1  f[Empty] Empty U {Empty}
= {Empty}
= {0}

2 {0} f[{0}]  {0} U {{0}}
= {0, {0}}
= {0, 1}

3 {0,1} f[{0,1}] {0,1} U {{0,1}}
={0,1,{0,1}}
={0,1,2} 

More later. ( Confirmed as an article in the NT Wiki. )

1. Is A a member of itself?

2. Yes.
See, http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/R.W.Kaye/seqser/constructions
for my source.

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