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Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 25 Jun 2011 9:02 am

Is that Invisible Tape what holds together the king's new suit of clothes ?

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 26 Jun 2011 11:44 am

Below 1K now at 707...probably in a day or two it will be 6 sevens and a million !!

admin · Post by **b0b** » 26 Jun 2011 1:12 pm

What exactly are you counting, Paul? I've never figured that out.

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 26 Jun 2011 7:18 pm

I am interested in the tally of On Line Users Posting Articles totaling 1,777,777...almost there. Maybe tonight...

Sorry for the delay but there was a fire in our apartment complex and they evacutaed our building as well because the wind from the storm that started the fire was moving over our building. Kinda scary for awhile and COPD in no friend of all the smoke that lasted until midnight/

Regards Paul

admin · Post by **b0b** » 26 Jun 2011 7:26 pm

I would never have guessed that one, Paul.

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 27 Jun 2011 1:41 am

It is funny what we latch onto as we approach Senile Dementia...514 left to go this morning but only 222,223 before we hit the two million mark. I think that is a really high mark to attain for not quite 11,000 members !!

Divide two million by 11 thousand and see what your calculator shows...

Regards, Paul

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 27 Jun 2011 9:01 am

2,000,000 ÷ 11,000 = 181.8181818181818··

Which is 181.8181818181818·· more than nothing.

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 27 Jun 2011 11:05 am

With seven segment numerics, my handheld looked like

18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18...

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 27 Jun 2011 1:20 pm

The article counter on the index page has gone haywire !! It was at 1,777,263 and now it's set at 1,775,473 ! Whasssz hoppening ??

$:\$

admin · Post by **b0b** » 27 Jun 2011 1:24 pm

Automatic pruning of the Test section. It happens now and then. Don't worry, it's nothing.

Archie Nicol · Post by **Archie Nicol** » 27 Jun 2011 3:07 pm

I wish I was in Carolina in the morning. It might be nice.

Arch.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 28 Jun 2011 10:02 am

Who is this Carolina, Arch ? Does she play steel ?

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 28 Jun 2011 12:32 pm

I think her name is Dinah...I've heard NOTHING could be finah !!

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 29 Jun 2011 4:30 pm

Believe it or not, there are instances where the first number is 0.

Here's an example. When numbering railway locomotives, if the first member of the 30XX class is 3000 you have space for one hundred locomotives in that class. But if the first member of the class is 3001 then the 100th member of the class would be 3100, which is a number you might need for the 31XX class. But what about the class in the 0XX series ? The first loco would have to be numbered 0, not 1.

There are cases where the first locomotive in a class has been numbered zero.

So 0 isn't always nothing.

admin · Post by **b0b** » 29 Jun 2011 4:44 pm

In programming, the first index of an array in numbered 0. The second letter of my name is 0. 0 ain't nothing. Ain't that something!

Little known fact: my name b0b as a hex number is 2827 in decimal.

Rick Collins · Post by **Rick Collins** » 30 Jun 2011 5:53 am

Alan Brookes wrote:So 0 isn't always nothing.

Are you saying that there is actually a plus and a minus 0? That's a lot to say about NOTHING.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 30 Jun 2011 9:00 am

No, in effect what we're saying is that the cypher 0 does not always refer to nothing.

admin · Post by **b0b** » 30 Jun 2011 9:46 am

But there actually is a plus 0 and a minus 0. That's a separate issue for the calculus class.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 30 Jun 2011 8:04 pm

5 + 0 means we're adding nothing to five.

5 - 0 means we're taking nothing away from five.

You could say that adding or subtracting nothing from any figure is the same as multiplying it by one or dividing it by one.

It could even be said that adding infinity to any number gives infinity. The fallacy of that, of course, is that you can't add anything to infinity, since infinity already includes that number.

Rick Collins · Post by **Rick Collins** » 30 Jun 2011 8:05 pm

Having a plus or minus 0 is the first sine of madness.

Well, here's what Newton, Einstein, and I think:
Like any other "digit", zero written as 0 is always plus, unless one places a minus sign in front of it.
Leibniz said NOTHING!

Rick Collins · Post by **Rick Collins** » 30 Jun 2011 8:18 pm

Alan Brookes wrote:5 + 0 means we're adding nothing to five.

5 - 0 means we're taking nothing away from five.

You could say that adding or subtracting nothing from any figure is the same as multiplying it by one or dividing it by one.

It could even be said that adding infinity to any number gives infinity. The fallacy of that, of course, is that you can't add anything to infinity, since infinity already includes that number.

Alan, are you saying NOTHING >0 or NOTHING <0 ?

If I've told you n times I've told you n+1 times:
NOTHING = 0.

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 3 Jul 2011 7:58 am

NOTHING 21 Jul 2007
98 pages
2,427 replies
95,690 views

ZB PSG 28 Oct 2002
96 pages
2,377 replies
119,887 views

SHOW US 6 Jul 2007
38 pages
930 replies
198,486 views

NOTHING has become an exercise in futility for me...

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 3 Jul 2011 9:43 am

Rick Collins wrote:...Alan, are you saying NOTHING >0 or NOTHING <0 ? ...

No. NOTHING = 0

By the way, what is the complete absence of nothing ?

Larry Rafferty · Post by **Larry Rafferty** » 3 Jul 2011 10:32 am

Alan Brookes wrote:[By the way, what is the complete absence of nothing ?

I always thought the complete absence of nothing was a vacuum. However, when I emptied by Hoover vacuum bag it was full of everything.

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