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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
Yeah, that's what meant with "2 is just the shortened representation of 1+1".
Same with 1+1+1=3, really. We need to decide the value of 1,2,3,4... Before we can do anything. In hindsight if you think about it, for someone that doesn't know the value of the symbols we use to represent numbers, any combination that mixes numbers requires the axiom of 1+1+1+1+... = X
I'd be surprised if someone proved that something equals 5 without any kind of axiom that already makes 5 equal to another thing.