What would happen if you could disassemble a number so far, it no longer had its structure?

I kept thinking about dividing a number, But I realized I wasn't actually doing anything to it. 

I tried to imagine an item like a fruit.  How do I chop it up into its parts without dividing it? I kept thinking of cutting it up into divided parts. I also imagined baskets of fruit and separating those baskets into more baskets.

But in the end, I came to realize, all of these things were just different types of division.

Finally I realized that separating of any kind was not going to work. 

The number had to be disassembled. The fruit had to be disassembled on a level that it was no longer a fruit to make it different.

The thinking was totally wrong.

What makes a fruit a fruit? What makes a number a number? As humans, we have been making an assumption about numbers for hundreds of years. We see them as one object... each number has its own packet of information.

1...2...3...

But that is not what a makes a number, really. A number is not an entity. It is made up of parts.

A. A number has girth. the number 5 says, 'I am 5 long'.

B. But it also says something else. It says, I am at a location. 'Part of me is at point 5'. 

But isn't B the same thing as A? NO! 'A' is a measure of it taking up space, and 'B' is a definition of a location.

Imagine you look at a train move from space. Imagine you had super eyes and you could see it. It goes somewhere around from Greensboro to Raleigh. That's 'A'. You knew the direction it came from and the time moving, but you initially didn't know anything else.

But to know that it exists, you have to give it a point in time and space. 

When you see the train traveling for 1 hour or so, but you are so far up in space that you don't know where it stopped or started, this is like 'A'.

But if someone in the train calls you from Raleigh and says 'we are now at Raleigh'. That information doesn't tell you the distance it travelled, only its location based on a certain time. 

Now with the new information of where they are (Raleigh, or B), and the time spent moving, (A), you have a full set of information.

This is how Placeholders and Numeric Values work.

One (numeric value) shows the girth of one number, and the other (placeholder) shows a point on a line-not in reference to any other point. 

But when put together, you get a number!

You can't show a numeric value by placing an infinite amount of placeholders in a line. This is because a placeholder is defined as a point of location, not of girth... kind of like a strange anchor. It simply allows the Numeric value to have a place to meet with the Placeholder to create a number.