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    Quantity and number

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    Quantity is the first category that Aristotle lists after substance. It has extraordinary epistemological clarity: "2+2=4" is the model of a self-evident and universally known truth. Continuous quantities such as the ratio of circumference to diameter of a circle are as clearly known as discrete ones. The theory that mathematics was "the science of quantity" was once the leading philosophy of mathematics. The article looks at puzzles in the classification and epistemology of quantity

    Numerical Computation of Exponential Functions of Nabla Fractional Calculus

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    In this article, we illustrate the asymptotic behaviour of exponential functions of nabla fractional calculus. For this purpose, we propose a novel matrix technique to compute these functions numerically
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