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for Peano, the natural number system is a triple (N, O, S), where N is a set, 0 is an element of that set, and S is a function whose domain and codomain are that set, such that the following axioms hold for all elements x and y of N:
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Anglin, W.S., Lambek, J. (1995). Natural Numbers (Peano’s Approach). In: The Heritage of Thales. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0803-7_34
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