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Is zero a number?
mvansand76:
--- Quote from: David on July 29, 2007, 03:46:47 pm ---Nothing isn't a quantity Melissa. Nothing is NOTHING. There's nothing there!
I'm very confused now. ??? Any mathematicians out there? Please explain this to us!
Hey, you're only 15 posts away from 2000!!! YEA!!!!!!!!! :D
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QUESTION: HOW MUCH IS IN IT?
ANSWER: NOTHING!
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NOTHING = QUANTITY!
Really, it's very simple... ::)
David In Indy:
I don't understand. ???
David In Indy:
A quantity is something that CAN be measured. Nothing cannot be measured because it doesn't exist.
How can we measure nothing?
Really Melissa. It's very simple. ::)
:laugh: :laugh:
[[[Melissa]]] :-* :-*
Shasta542:
Zero is a count of the elements in a completely empty set: nothing. You can add zero to any number and you get that number. You can add, subtract, and multiply by zero, but you are not allowed to divide by zero.
Zero is a number.
Example Question:
"Shasta--how many times have you kissed Jake Gyllenhaal?"
"I have kissed Jake Gyllenhaal exactly zero times. I am hoping to add to that however."
I'm on the side of "it IS a number". How will we know? If more people say it is a number, then it is; if more people say it isn't a number, then it isn't?? 8)
Now, do ya'll think "clear" is a color? ;D
Scott6373:
Yes, zero is a number but you are not alone if you wonder why. Indian mathematicians first came up with the number idea around 650 AD. Originally, perhaps as early as 200 AD, they used zero as a placeholder in another number. For example, in our notation: 216 is a different number than 2016. This use of zero advanced trade, commerce, and bookkeeping but does not qualify zero as a number. Zero, in its place-keeping function, is a kind of punctuation mark to help us interpret numbers correctly.
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