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Why are $U$ and $V$ (and not $N$) the only extensive parameters for blackbody radiation?

In Chapter 3.6 of Callen, he remarks that the particle number $N$ does not appear in the thermodynamic description of blackbody radiation. Why is this? That is, in most simple systems of one component,...
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