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Big naturals is way easier to pronounce (sub.wetshaving.social)
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[–] 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Natural numbers include zero

That is a divisive opinion and not actually a fact

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, it's a matter of convention rather than opinion really, but among US academia the convention is to exclude 0 from the naturals. I think in France they include it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    positive interers with addition are not a monoid though, since the identity element of addition is 0

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They're not a complete algebraically closed field either, but I don't see you advocating for including e - i in the natural numbers!

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