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post #16 of 20
8/2/10 at 8:13am
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Originally Posted by SiriuslyCold View Post

Is the number 1 really a number or the representation of a singularity?

 

 


Wouldn't that make your fridge the placeholder? ;)


Technically the expired yogurt is the placeholder. :(

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post #17 of 20
8/2/10 at 8:23am

I do recall that the Romans didn't have a symbol for it, but then I think they missed the idea of negative numbers too!

 

Sceptre

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post #18 of 20
8/2/10 at 9:55am

 

Is the number 0 really a number or the representation of nothing?

 

 

Not on Chuck Norris's watch 

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post #19 of 20
8/2/10 at 10:27am
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Originally Posted by iq160plus View Post

I am intrigued about the year ZERO that never happened.  People went from 11:59 PM 1B.C.E and the next minute were at midnight 12:00 AM 1 A.D.  Was it a tough decision to skip the year zero? Were they scared of living in the year Zero?



Counting years based on the birth of jesus was not done until several hundred years later when the year of his birth was estimated.

 

Wikipedia

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post #20 of 20
8/7/10 at 4:55am

 

0 = my bank account after discovering Head-fi!

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