weird@sub.wetshaving.social to memes@lemmy.world · 1 month agoAt least we're not mixing in letterssub.wetshaving.socialimagemessage-square217fedilinkarrow-up11.26Karrow-down149
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minus-squaremumblerfish@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down2·1 month 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-up4·edit-21 month 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-up4·1 month 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-up3arrow-down1·1 month agoPeople who lived before the invention of zero counted like that!
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoI have no idea if that’s true but I believe it
minus-squarechonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month 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-up3·1 month 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-squareLanguageIsCool@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month 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