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Rick Collins · Post by **Rick Collins** » 28 Jan 2013 1:45 pm

Gary Brekke wrote:..

I think I see something!
Are you claiming that's NOTHING!

Gary Brekke · Post by **Gary Brekke** » 28 Jan 2013 1:56 pm

Bob Knight · Post by **Bob Knight** » 28 Jan 2013 3:23 pm

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 28 Jan 2013 4:15 pm

Bob Knight wrote:

You can rely on our mentor, Bob, to come up with the definitive answer.

As a chess grandmaster many years ago said, "Once a Bishop, always a Bishop, but once a Knight is enough..."

Post by **b0b** » 30 Jan 2013 7:48 am

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Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 30 Jan 2013 4:48 pm

I saw a youtube on How To Build A Nuclear Sub but I thought I'd better have NOTHING to do with such a craft...

admin · Post by **b0b** » 30 Jan 2013 4:53 pm

You'd never get it to go over 50 naughts anyway.

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 30 Jan 2013 4:57 pm

Isn't NAUGHTS a measurement of NOTHING ??

admin · Post by **b0b** » 30 Jan 2013 6:04 pm

Nothing gets past you, Paul.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 30 Jan 2013 9:17 pm

No, NOUGHTS is a measurement of nothing, not NAUGHTS.

admin · Post by **b0b** » 30 Jan 2013 10:14 pm

Naught to disagree:
www.thefreedictionary.com/naught

Harold Dye · Post by **Harold Dye** » 31 Jan 2013 5:20 am

I see nothin has been added since I last read nothin. In other words I read nothin, I see nothin and ain't got nothin on my mind. (or maybe its the same words). Oh well nothin ventured, nothin gained.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 31 Jan 2013 10:24 am

b0b wrote:Naught to disagree:
www.thefreedictionary.com/naught

According to Webster, and the Oxford English Dictionary, naught means nothing, whilst nought represents the number 0. This is why I said that "NOUGHTS is a measurement of nothing, not NAUGHTS". Since naught means nothing, it has no plural. There's no such word as naughts.

Ultimately both words are derived from nawhit, no whit, meaning nothing known. Where I come from the word is usually nowt, which also comes from nawhit.

I wouldn't put much faith in "thefreedictionary.com". Like Wikepedia, all sorts of people contribute, and the information runs all the way from highly informative to disinformative.

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 31 Jan 2013 12:49 pm

What about KNOTS ?? They're not just for Boy Scouts anymore, you know ??

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 31 Jan 2013 4:04 pm

Paul Graupp wrote:What about KNOTS ?? They're not just for Boy Scouts anymore, you know ??

That a knotty (naughty?) subject, of which I know NOTHING.

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 1 Feb 2013 3:24 am

Shouldn't that be spelt...KNOTHING ?

Harold Dye · Post by **Harold Dye** » 1 Feb 2013 5:32 am

I have looked everywhere including both FB and Tweeets and I can't find the square root of nothin

Can someone please help!

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 1 Feb 2013 10:34 am

That's the easiest question of all time.

0 x 0 = 0

The square root of zero is zero.

admin · Post by **b0b** » 1 Feb 2013 10:56 am

The square root of nought is not naught (nor is it knot). The square root of nought is nought, but nought is not naught; there is no square root of nothing.

Harold Dye · Post by **Harold Dye** » 1 Feb 2013 11:21 am

Oh I am sorry I did not know that zero and nothing were the same.One starts with a Z and the other starts with an N. Now everything is coming into focus. Unfortunely I see nothing.

admin · Post by **b0b** » 1 Feb 2013 11:48 am

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Harold Dye · Post by **Harold Dye** » 1 Feb 2013 12:14 pm

b0b that was incrediable

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 1 Feb 2013 1:57 pm

b0b wrote:The square root of nought is not naught (nor is it knot). The square root of nought is nought, but nought is not naught; there is no square root of nothing.

0 (zero) is the mathematical representation of zero. Nothing/Naught/Nowt is the linguistical representation of the absence of all.
In Mathematical terms, 3 x 2 = 6 means, "take three instances of two and that equates to six instances of unity". That, in itself, requires a lifetime of proof, which I was involved in during the 60s at Exeter University.
2 x 3 = 6 means that if you take two instances of three items you end up with six items of that same thing.
3 x 2 = 6 means that if you take three instances of two items you end up with six items of that same thing.
The problem evolves around the definition of six, which is defined as five plus one.

So, getting back to the square root of 0, 0 x 0 represents taking no items of something with the value of nothing. The value of no items of no value is nothing.

admin · Post by **b0b** » 1 Feb 2013 2:43 pm

I tried to prove something like that in the sixties too, but I remember nothing.

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