Do numbers exist? Physically no, in my view, numerals of course exist but numbers are abstract entities that are used to allow us to manage and illustrate talk about quantities. So according to this video I'm a nominalist.
Fun Technical Philosophy -Philosophy and Numbers
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Used to have fun as a kid playing with calculators and seeing what happens when you divide by zero, different machines acted differently depending of course how they were manufactured, but zero is philosophically a problem.