The magic of numbers 0,1,2

Plato was right. Pythagoras was right. Pikabu is also right. 

Pikabu is a cat. Ze cat. Our cat

Pikabu Ze Cat

Pikabu knows the numbers. Not many-many numbers. But she certainly knows 1 and 2. She counts: one, two. When she sees both of us, she knows the world is "in order". When she counts and there is only one - she is unhappy. When she can't count even "one", when the result of her counting is just 0 - it is a disaster, end of the world. Cats are strange.

ze Cat in HD

Pikabu, while in a "state of happiness",  created this table of numbers that she knows about:

Meow!

It's her creation. Letter a,b,c over the columns has been added by me. I am the "organizer". I know the magic of creating a full dish out of the empty cat food dish. So Pikabu does not mind me adding letters to her creation.

But now, we, human beings, have the ability to give meaning to symbols. That is the main function of our minds. The more knowledge we have, the more "context" we are able to give to the raw "data".

What meaning can we associate with the numbers above? We know how to multiply numbers and how to add them. 

What "magic" is in the above table created by Pikabu ze cat that knows only 0,1,2?

To be continued

P.S.1. Perhaps I should mention that long before Pikabu there were those Babylonians and Hindus 

Babylonians used Pythagorean theorem 1,000 years before it was 'invented' in ancient Greece

A 3,700-year-old clay tablet has revealed that the ancient Babylonians understood the Pythagorean theorem more than 1,000 years before the birth of the Greek philosopher Pythagoras, who is widely associated with the idea.

Pythagoras, Plimpton 322 and Pythagorean Triples

Pythagorean triples (3, 4, 5), (12, 16, 20), (15, 20, 25), (5, 12, 13), (8, 15, 17), and (12, 35, 37) first

appeared in Apastamba (one of seven available Sulbasutras, first about 3200 BC, named after the sages

P.S.2. Sunday's quote:

 "Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away." 

 

Philip K. Dick, Valis