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Anonymous Sat Nov 9 19:55:26 2019 No.11131924 [Reply] [Original]

why is zero not a natural number?

looks pretty natural to me

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 19:56:51 2019 No.11131931 >>11131924 it's not natural because simply can't even even comprehend the concept

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 19:57:11 2019 No.11131932 >>11131924 >>11131931 schizos detected

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 19:59:02 2019 No.11131941 File: 780 KB, 945x1134, __remilia_scarlet_touhou_drawn_by_kasuka_kusuki__846bd85afa5e9752d32a5869e7223e87.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11131924 It bloats the axioms for arithmetic and doesn't really make anything easier.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 20:00:04 2019 No.11131943 Because retarded cavemen couldn't figure it out until 3 B.C.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 20:59:25 2019 No.11132081 it's sort of subjective, my maths prof thinks it is and so do I - I just think it's nice to have two sets N = {0, 1, 2, ...} and Z+ = {1, 2, 3, ...} instead of both of those meaning the same thing