Is ZERO a number?
By sahira
@sahira (1071)
Philippines
March 6, 2007 10:56am CST
How do you classify zero?is it a number or not?when you say numbers,it starts from 1 and up..i've seen a discussion here asking what number you hate?..i want to response as zero but i hesitate because i don't know if zero (0) is a number or not...what do you think mathematicians out there?
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7 responses
@justinhk2107 (712)
• Hong Kong
19 Mar 07
well, ZERO is not simply, it is a number but have other meaning than number, zero means nothing — an absence of other values. Historically, it was the last digit to come into use. In the English language, zero may also be called null or nil when a number, o/oh when a numeral, and nought/naught in either context. Noone know Who discovered zero and when....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0_%28number%29
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/%7Ehistory/HistTopics/Zero.html
@jayanvarkala (489)
• India
12 Mar 07
Yes Zero is a number and everything starts from zero. In the begining there is a big zero
@ESKARENA1 (18261)
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9 Mar 07
zero certauinly is a number, without it how can you deal with minus numbers?
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@dpk262006 (58678)
• Delhi, India
7 Mar 07
I am not a mathematician, but I believe 'zero' is a number. Without '0', no maths or calculation will be possible.
@Destiny007 (5805)
• United States
6 Mar 07
Yes, zero is a number that signifies value just as any other number does. It signifies the value as nothing.
It is the divider between something and less than nothing. You might even say it is worthless, as it is worth nothing.
Nothing needs to get out and get a job so that someday it may be worth something, but it shouldn't invest because it might lose what it doesn't already have and then it would be worth less than nothing and all the other nothings could then look down on it and throw rocks and say mean things.
Then it would have to move from it's worthless home to the sub level where the negatives all live. Then there will be jealousies and envy, and the next thing you know their will be wars between the somethings, the nothings and the negatives. This will cause a serious drain on the economy, until the negatives win and then would reign supreme.
So yes, zero is a number, and you better not pick o it.
