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[-] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm an American mathematician, and I've never experienced a situation where 0 being an element of the Naturals was called out. It's less ubiquitous than I'd like it to be, but at worst they're considered equally viable conventions of notation or else undecided.

I've always used N to indicate the naturals including 0, and that's what was taught to me in my foundations class.

[-] kogasa@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Of course they're considered equally viable conventions, it's just that one is prevalent among Americans and the other isn't.

[-] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

I think you're using a fringe definition of the word "fringe".

[-] kogasa@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago
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