Naked Gonad
11/24/2008 11:25:00 AM
Eli Grubman wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:14:28 +0000, Naked Gonad
> <bodron57@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Eli Grubman wrote:
>>> On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:47:25 +0000, Naked Gonad
>>> <bodron57@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Eli Grubman wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:00:20 +0000, Naked Gonad
>>>>> <bodron57@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Peter Hucker wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:45:02 -0000, Naked Gonad <bodron57@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Peter Hucker wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:58:51 -0000, Naked Gonad <bodron57@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Peter Hucker wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:39:04 -0000, Naked Gonad <bodron57@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Peter Hucker wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:21:39 -0000, Naked Gonad <bodron57@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Peter Hucker wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> So, would a bank account that has nothing in it, read 000.00 or would
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> it magically mean something else?
>>>>>>>>>>>>> It would read 0 (well maybe ?0.00), there's nothing magical about it.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Whatever, it still counts as nothing or 0.
>>>>>>>>>>> So you fail to distinguish between an empty glass and no glass?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I thought we were talking about counting 0 as nothing?
>>>>>>>>> Yes we were. An empty glass is not nothing. However the reading on beer level is "0".
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> You've now changed it from counting to objects.
>>>>>>> Zero is important in both cases. If you're counting anything and miss out zero, going directly from -1 to 1, you've made an error. You could be counting how much money you owe me, which is changing as you give me ?1 coins. Going straight from -1 to +1 would do me out of a quid.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> What on earth are you talking about!?
>>>>>> If I owed you ?5, I would count 1 2 3 4 5, where does 0 come into it?
>>>>> The 0 is what he'll get back.
>>>> He'll probably say "that's not the same as nothing".
>>> Nothing is the same as nothing.
>>>
>> Except Peter! - while we have nothing, he'll always have 0....er....erm.
>
> There is always room for improvement!
>
Two 0's?