2006-09-02 08:47:56 · 43 answers · asked by kmc1169 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
yes
2006-09-02 08:48:56 · answer #1 · answered by ex_inferis_uk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here's something interesting ...
Before we had numbers that everyone could read, people depicted a number by drawing the number of angles . I could explain this better if there was a drawing medium. but 1 has 1 angle. Rather than rounding them off but have them as straight lines and 2 has 2 angles 3 has three angles, four was drawn + and so on. 0 has no angles.
Is it a number? I don't know. It certainly is a representation of an amount (or lack of it). and 100 would make no sense without a zero or two.
2006-09-04 14:49:58 · answer #2 · answered by krazykarenteague 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Because 1, 2 and 3 are numbers. And 3 - 2 - 1 = 0, so 0 must also be a number.
2006-09-05 04:55:34 · answer #3 · answered by helen g 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Zero is in the set of Whole Numbers, Real Numbers, and Integers.
One fun fact to note is that you cannot divide by zero...but if a number in the denominator of a fraction gets really, really small and approaches zero, the Rational Number being represented approaches infinity!
2006-09-02 09:48:32 · answer #4 · answered by margo345 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes! A number and digit! Are carrots orange? lol!
Excuse me. But 0 is not a prime number! If it was then the whole structure of numbers would collapse according to Brennan's triangle (BTW, I invented it.) 1 is also not prime as once again the triangle would collapse.
A prime number is a number that only has two factors. Itself and one. Zero has only one factor. Itself. Or you can say it has no factors at all (That's what some people say.)
2006-09-03 23:18:06 · answer #5 · answered by geode_diamond_soul 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
0 (zero) is both a number — or, more precisely, a numeral representing a number — and a numerical digit. Zero is the last digit to be incorporated in most numeral systems. In the English language, zero may also be called nil when a number, o/oh when a numeral, and nought/naught in either context.
2006-09-02 08:51:04 · answer #6 · answered by KIT-KAT 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
During the begining of mathematics and for some time after that there was no such 'value' as zero. So technically since all the rest of the numbers were 'invented', and since zero was invented it should be anumber aswell. Though in boolian maths, e.g. in literal terms (1 pile of sand plus one pile of sand equals one pile of sand), zero is technically equal to nothing, i.e. there is absolutly nothing there, so in that case you could consider it as non exsistant so it isnt a number. But in pure mathmatics it is a number and nothing else.
2006-09-05 04:58:25 · answer #7 · answered by JoeBok 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the ancient Assyrians invented the number zero to represent the absence of value.
2006-09-02 09:04:59 · answer #8 · answered by ImAssyrian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and no, it is a place where a number should be, but if the place didn't exist it then it would be nothing i.e. zero, nil.
In schools they call it a place value meaning that is a place where a number should be to the value of nothing.
2006-09-02 08:59:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes of course zero is a number
It wouldnt be Anything if it wasnt a number LOL!
what do you think it is a letter
2006-09-02 08:50:16 · answer #10 · answered by patrick c 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No - Zero is the absence of number. Therefore it is neither odd nor even and cannot be used as a divisor. Nor can it be diided or multiplied and when added or subtracted makes no difference to anything.
2006-09-02 15:56:54 · answer #11 · answered by kingofclubs_uk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋