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of ratios of magnitudes as real numbers:

That is, the ratio of magnitudes of any quantity, whether volume, mass, heat and so on, is a number. Following this, Newton then defined number, and the relationship between quantity and number, in the following terms:

Structure

Continuous quantities possess a particular structure that was first explicitly characterized by Hölder (1901) as a set of axioms that

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