Other fun arguments in the same vein: Is atheism a religion? Is not playing golf a sport? For extra fun, try explaining the answers to both in a non-contradictory way.
No to both, though atheism can be a theological philosophy.
Zero grew up from the seeds of the undefined, just like negative numbers and people who refuse to accept that the square root only has one value. Undefined is a pathway to many abilities some would consider unnatural.
Zero is a number. Need I say more?
N is the set of "counting numbers".
When you count upwards you start from 1, and go up. However, when you count down you usually end on 0. Surely this means 0 satisfies the definition.
The natural numbers are derived, according to Brouwer, from our intuition of time of time by the way. From this notion, 0 is no strange idea since it marks the moment our intuition first begins ^_^
0 is natural.
Source - programming languages.
*Most programming languages
I don't personally know many programming languages that provide natural number type in their prelude or standard library.
In fact, I can only think of proof assistants, like Lean, Coq, and Agda. Obviously the designer of these languages know a reasonable amount of mathematics to make the correct choice.
(I wouldn't expect the same from IEEE or W3C, LOL
It's really just a joke about counting from 0 instead of 1.
Oh, array indexing, sure.
How can nothing be a number
Wouldnt it be best to think of it more as the representation of the absence of something?
How about minus zero?
So 0 is hard. But you know what? Tell me what none-whole number follows right after or before 0. That's right, we don't even have a thing to call that number.
I think p-adic has that
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