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[–] Jumuta 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

listen here u little

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I mean technically zero is not a number

[–] Klear 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Zero is the absence of a number, or a placeholder, not a number 🤷‍♂️ there's been mathematicians arguing over this for years my dude

[–] Klear 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It's just a thought experiment, chill out

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

By some definitions, maybe. However, definitions that exclude it probably do so for a specific reason. It's more a fluke of categorization than a real world distinction. Those distinctions might be critical to certain logic systems, but even most people who use that definition recognize reality.

Zero is a number in more cases than it isn't. It is a symbol that represents a value. Just like infinity, it doesn't matter if 0 doesn't exist in physical reality. It's still a useful value in most cases.

[–] ReveredOxygen 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is something I would do in school unironically.