[lupire]

Mistranslation or not, conceptually "natural numbers Z+" or "whole numbers Z*" are a more fitting claim.

Peano would go further: God invented 0 and +1, and all the rest are the work of people.

[dotancohen]

In software development it is often said that there are only three relevant numbers: 0, 1 and infinity. Everything else is contrived.

Certainly, nature follows a very similar pattern. For limited values of infinity ))