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by marplebot 3358 days ago
A number is also a concept, and there are number systems that include infinities (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_number). It all depends on your definitions/axioms. So in a sense there is not full agreement on what a number is, but several sets numbers are generally agreed upon: integers, rationals, computables, etc.