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142. Zero
The Allusionist
Is Zero a Real Number?
After it was accepted, there could have been no more doubt about whether this was a new number. It opened up our minds to start thinking of math in a more abstract way. When you open up your world to zero, then you can also open it up to negative numbers and later on, even complex numbers. Dividing by zero, at least i was taught it was illegal math,. I love that phrase. You get a ticket if you try to di by zero. There's many stories of errors and disasters befalling people who devied by zero.
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