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N = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ...}
Z = {..., -5, -4, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ...}
One belongs to more than one set of numbers. Why can’t we? Even numbers have more options that we do. They can enjoy the companionship of all the negative numbers while having the luxury of ditching them when not necessary and chill with the positive ones. Sometimes they even go ahead and mix up with the Rational and Irrational ones.
Logically though some of these sets are subset of other ones. So why do we create the other sets?
Is it because we like variety and get bored easily? Or is it because one wants to be closer to some numbers at certain times? or does it want to take a break from others?
Sometimes I really feel bad for zero and other times I am proud of it. Do you think the numbers on its sides would get into fights if zero was not there? I think when zero was taking a break the two sets started to make babies and made the Real set, don’t you think so?
Anyways, my point is that one likes to belong to more than one set at one time! But when it gets to intimate matters as humans we usually can not deal with it…..But didn't we, humans, invented the numbers ourselves?
2 comments:
Im fairly certain that the majority of people in fact are a part of multiple sets: take political views for instance ... there are very very very very few (if any) people who are 100% left-wing versus 100% right-wing ... people are a little bit of everything (although we may have out overal tendencies, i'm sure if we dig down hard enough there are examples of both)
Then again, this notion of "leftwing" and "rightwing" is also an artificial one....
Good words.
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