Re: [newbie] Totally useless fact (OS)

[Ralph | byte |]

A positive nothing is better than a negative anything.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "James Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 1999 7:46 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] Totally useless fact (OS)


> 0 is in fact an imaginary number. Try and imagine having zero of
something.
> 0 x 1 implies there
> are some ones, but there are none of them. Having a zero quantity of
> something is in its self contradiction. You can't have nothing of
something.
>
> Or have i just drank too much coffee today...
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter Heckert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 20 November 1999 21:46
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] Totally useless fact (OS)
> >
> >
> > PadLocke wrote:
> > >
> > > zeros aren't odd or even.  They're Pretty much just place holders.
> >
> > If you define even as: "can be divided by 2 without remainder" then
> > 0 is even.
> > 0 div 2 = 0, remainder = 0.
> >
> > Pretty long thread!
> >
> > ;-)
> >
> > Peter
> >
>