weird@sub.wetshaving.social to memes@lemmy.world · 2 months agoAt least we're not mixing in letterssub.wetshaving.socialexternal-linkmessage-square183fedilinkarrow-up1483arrow-down121
arrow-up1462arrow-down1external-linkAt least we're not mixing in letterssub.wetshaving.socialweird@sub.wetshaving.social to memes@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square183fedilink
minus-squaremumblerfish@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2 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-squareTheTechnician27@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·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 up@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 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-squarechonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·2 months agoPeople who lived before the invention of zero counted like that!
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI have no idea if that’s true but I believe it
minus-squarechonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 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 Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 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.
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.