Three pigs
Two pigs
One pig
Zero pig ? Or zero pigs?
Honest question. Do we pluralize nouns of zero count? Or should they be singular?
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In English you use plural for zero count. I have zero pigs. There are 0 cows.
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Fun fact, for a long time in history minus (-1) did not exist
I saw a video years ago where somebody was talking (with a translator) to a tribe, I forget where. He asked how do they count. They would point with one hand to the other hand. Once they've got to five they start pointing to other parts of the arm moving upwards. He then asked what if you need to count higher. They looked confused, why would they need to count higher.
For them they could exist without needing to count beyond teens.
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Mathematics for much of human history was discrete - it had to be connected to something tangible which you can see, touch or feel. Negative numbers first arose in China, subsequently the use numerical operations on negative numbers and the conceptualization and use of zero arose in India. Spiritual concepts within dharmic philosophies such as Buddhism helped lead to these ideas.
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Binary calculations must be a nightmare for some
Lil fella with smelly armpits and the buttsquirts?
write all of the numbers on top of each other then scribble on them. does that look anything like zero? i don't know kanji, i'm just understanding my own bad handwriting and trying to understand how they'd get there
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https://bookshop.org/p/books/zero-the-biography-of-a-dangerous-idea-charles-seife/9b102f8407965163
Really good read.
Zero The Biography of a Dangerous Idea.
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or 〇, if you prefer
Zero seems to be someone very upset... Is it mad at me ? Or, maybe, am I the 0 ?
So basically = 0 and the long = Null?
No
= is 2