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minus-square@mumblerfish@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink14•2 months agoThe AM/PM bullshit: AM: 12, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 Then the same for PM. Who counts like that? Whats after 12? 1! What?
minus-squareTheTechnician27linkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-22 months agoThe galaxy-brained group known as “Z12 + 1”. “What if we did modular arithmetic but one-indexed.” Edit: Actually, wait, it’s worse: zero-indexing but we represent the zero element in Zn as ‘n’. Kill it with fire.
minus-squareLog in | Sign uplinkfedilink4•2 months agoIs not 12+12Z the exact same coset as 0+12Z? Is 12 not the identity element? Must group theory follow computer science conventions?
minus-square@chonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink3•2 months agoPeople who lived before the invention of zero counted like that!
minus-squarePossibly linuxlinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 months agoI have no idea if that’s true but I believe it
minus-square@chonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink4•2 months agoThe idea of zero being a number rather than the absence of a number took a very long time to settle on. There’s a whole history book on the topic!
minus-squareApathy TreelinkfedilinkEnglish3•2 months agoI listened to an audiobook about the history of zero years ago (can’t remember the name, might be that one). I thought it would be dull enough to fall asleep to. It was not.
minus-square@LanguageIsCool@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•2 months agoBig brain ape like count in many systems
The AM/PM bullshit:
AM: 12, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Then the same for PM. Who counts like that? Whats after 12? 1! What?
The galaxy-brained group known as “Z12 + 1”. “What if we did modular arithmetic but one-indexed.”
Edit: Actually, wait, it’s worse: zero-indexing but we represent the zero element in Zn as ‘n’. Kill it with fire.
Is not 12+12Z the exact same coset as 0+12Z? Is 12 not the identity element? Must group theory follow computer science conventions?
People who lived before the invention of zero counted like that!
I have no idea if that’s true but I believe it
The idea of zero being a number rather than the absence of a number took a very long time to settle on. There’s a whole history book on the topic!
I listened to an audiobook about the history of zero years ago (can’t remember the name, might be that one). I thought it would be dull enough to fall asleep to.
It was not.
Big brain ape like count in many systems