▲ 1166 ▼ Big naturals is way easier to pronounce (sub.wetshaving.social) submitted 1 year ago by weird@sub.wetshaving.social to c/memes@lemmy.world 69 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 child) american education system moment? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] davidagain@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) I think round the world, children and adults start counting from 1. It's only natural! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) I think about this in terms can I have of something (indivisible), and sure enough I can have 0 apples (yeah, yeah, divisible), bruises, grains of sand in my pocket permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] davidagain@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago I think you're trying to explain to me what zero means while I'm trying to explain that it's not where numbers numbers start of from. It's where array offsets start (but making humans make that distinction instead of compilers is on obvious own goal for language designers who weren't intending to make off by one errors more frequent). It's where set theory starts, but it's absolutely not where counting starts, and number starts with counting. It's not a natural number. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) I think round the world, children and adults start counting from 1. It's only natural! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) I think about this in terms can I have of something (indivisible), and sure enough I can have 0 apples (yeah, yeah, divisible), bruises, grains of sand in my pocket permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] davidagain@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago I think you're trying to explain to me what zero means while I'm trying to explain that it's not where numbers numbers start of from. It's where array offsets start (but making humans make that distinction instead of compilers is on obvious own goal for language designers who weren't intending to make off by one errors more frequent). It's where set theory starts, but it's absolutely not where counting starts, and number starts with counting. It's not a natural number. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) I think about this in terms can I have of something (indivisible), and sure enough I can have 0 apples (yeah, yeah, divisible), bruises, grains of sand in my pocket permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] davidagain@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago I think you're trying to explain to me what zero means while I'm trying to explain that it's not where numbers numbers start of from. It's where array offsets start (but making humans make that distinction instead of compilers is on obvious own goal for language designers who weren't intending to make off by one errors more frequent). It's where set theory starts, but it's absolutely not where counting starts, and number starts with counting. It's not a natural number. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago I think you're trying to explain to me what zero means while I'm trying to explain that it's not where numbers numbers start of from. It's where array offsets start (but making humans make that distinction instead of compilers is on obvious own goal for language designers who weren't intending to make off by one errors more frequent). It's where set theory starts, but it's absolutely not where counting starts, and number starts with counting. It's not a natural number. permalink fedilink source parent
