I considered deleting the post, but this seems more cowardly than just admitting I was wrong. But TIL something!
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As a mathematician, I tend to disagree with this common truism because it limits one's ability to think about transfinites and suggests there's a widely agreed upon technical definition of "number".
There is, though. Maybe not wide in your inner circle, but very, very wide if you actually look around.
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