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> While you are right that Succ() is as elemental as it gets (including in both Peano and set-theory construction of natural numbers), it is seldom used outside of theoretical foundations.

Well, depends on how you define seldom. What if I told you that twitter would break without the use of Succ()? :-)



As I said in the other paragraph:

> it's still a can of worms

;-)




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