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05-16-2008, 10:25 PM #1
You believe in 0? What has 0 ever done for you?
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05-17-2008, 01:18 AM #2
This aggression will not stand!
I reject this attempt to smear the 0-number! This just shows not only that you don't personally know 0, and neither have accepted it as your personal foundation and frame of reference, but also your utter ignorance about 0!
I must come to its defense as I've already proudly proclaimed myself as a zero-lover.
I have know 0 ever since I remember and I have not seen any other number of such integrity and neutrality. You are asking what has 0 done for me? I can answer you that instead you should be concerned what you can do for 0, but I will tell you that if nothing else 0 is all idempotent. In fact it is the incarnation of idempotency. No (and read my lips, I mean 0) group can even exist without 0!
Perhaps because of its humbleness 0 is sometimes omitted by those who are ignorant, yet it is the cornerstone of anything important as signified by the expression "year zero".
I already mentioned the neutrality of 0, but let me clarify that it extends not only to it being neither positive, not negative, but also it is neither prime, not composite. At the same time it's perfectly even, natural and whole, rational, and real, all these at the same time which only exemplifies how it is also complex.
As a testament to all this and many other features of its character all modern programming languages have switched to vastly more efficient 0-based counting. Not to mention that without 0 there will be no roulette either.
So, here you have it, you ignorant heathen. Here I stand firm in my conviction that whenever I need a singularity I can always divide by 0 to get one.
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05-17-2008, 02:20 PM #3
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05-17-2008, 04:00 PM #4
Perhaps the slashed zero is more appropriate for SRP members?