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THE UNIT

 

The Greeks regarded the one, the unit, not as a number one the contrary was the monad emerged from all the other numbers. After Euclid is ". Number is the composite of units of quantity, it was not unreasonable to see the one not to be composed of one yet in 1537 the German Kobel write in his book on arithmetic." From this you understand that the One is no number. rather it is the generating principle, the beginning and the foundation of all numbers."[...]

 

 

ROOT of 2

 

1,4142135623730950488016887242096980785697

 

 

Either Pythagoras himself discovered, or a member of his school as the first, that the ratio of diagonal square to square side is not expressible as a fraction of two integers. In other words, this ratio is irrational. [...]

 

Source: David, Wells, Das Lexikon der Zahlen, Fischer Logo, Für den Spielraum im Kopf

 

 

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