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Gary Brekke wrote:..

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

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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..."

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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...

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

Isn't NAUGHTS a measurement of NOTHING ??

Nothing gets past you, Paul.

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

Naught to disagree:
www.thefreedictionary.com/naught

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.

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.

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

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.

Shouldn't that be spelt...KNOTHING ?

I have looked everywhere including both FB and Tweeets and I can't find the square root of nothin Can someone please help!

That's the easiest question of all time.

0 x 0 = 0

The square root of zero is zero.

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.

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.

b0b that was incrediable

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.

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