What is the value of 0 ?

Question

Just wondering why when a zero is added say to number 1 like this 1 becomes 10 or 100 ,1000 ,10000 but zero is nothing isn't it ?
And also if the 00000 s are added the other side like this the value becomes less like this 00000000001 or further away

Answer 1

0 is a symbol depicting nothing. It isn;t the 0 itself but the number of digits after the first digit that denote how big a number gets.

Answer 2

Zero is not nothing. The value of 0 depends on supply and demand for 0. It can be more than 0, but it cannot be less than 0.

For example, imagine you had £0 but you wanted to exchange them into Euros. With a fixed commission of £2, it would actually cost you £2 for 0 Euros. So therefore 0 in Euros is worth £2 to you if you could do that transaction in reverse.

The value 0 is not stationary either. Over time 0 can accumulate in value with interest. If you add charges to 0, you can get a positive debt if you are a banker. This is sometimes known as an asset to a bank, and therefore 0 has a value on its scrambled balance sheet.

If 0 is a rounded value and is not precisely 0, then if you add up all the 0's you will get something either much greater than 0 or a lot less than 0.

In the whole, 0 is a never ending loop quite like a circle. It's value can only be measured in the cost you are willing to pay to acquire something which you can never own.

Answer 3

"0" has two purposes that should not be confused. Just as some words can have multiple meanings depending on how they are used, so too does "0". When "0" is used as a number, it is the value "zero", as in "x + (-x) = 0". When "0" is used as a digit in the expression of a number, such as "100", it is a place holder. Any number expressed in "base ten" can also be expressed as an expansion of powers of ten. For example: "1234" could be expressed mathematically as "1x10^3 + 2x10^2 + 3x10 + 4" or "1x1000 + 2x100 + 3x10 + 4". So too could 1000 be expressed "1x10^3 + 0x10^2 + 0x10 + 0", thus "0" is the place holder for the 100's, 10's and 1's, so that we can tell the difference between "1000" and "1".

Answer 4

0 is a symbol for expressing nothing of some kind of things.


10 has a zero. You are right in that 0 adds nothing and is nothing.
But there is 1 which adds something. This one occurs in the second place or in the tens place so it has a value of 1*ten^1 or ten. Notice here that the 0 digit helped us know the place of 1, which happened to be the tens. See! Although 0 means nothing, it is needed in the decimal as well as all the other positional systems to tell us the place of each digit different from zero, and otherwise, it will be really way complicated to show the place of every nonzero digit.

Answer 5

0 is a unique number,

it is the only number that you can add to any number and get the number itself, like

49567623976 + 0 = 49567623976
99 + 0 = 99, right?

0000000000000001 without a decimal point before it is still 1 like
1.00000000000000 is still one because of the decimal point between 1 and the first 0.,

0 added after a number however like 10000 makes a number's value greater,

so we can say that 0 is important in mathematics.,

its value isn't nothing., it just has a different property from the other numbers, the same way as 1 does.,

anyway, it's only the human mind who gave these numbers their property, so whoever invented it had a purpose for it so it really isnt just nothing, it's 0., and its value is 0 with all its properties

Answer 6

We write numbers in what is call 'positional notation'.

It's not the only way of writing numbers ... for instance Roman numerals aren't positional, tally marks aren't.

It's confusing to use the word 'added' in your question because it has two completely different meanings and mixing them up will just rot your brain.

When you write '100' what you mean is 1x100 + 0x10 + 0x1. So when you concatenate zeroes to the end of a number you are shifting the position of all the digits across and so changing their meaning.

Similararly when you write 0.001 what you mean is 0x1 + 0x0.1 + 0x0.01 + 1x0.001

If the zeroes are put on the other side of one you make no difference to the value.

But if you put zeroes to the left of the one and also include a decimal point then you are shifting the one down through its positional values ... so it means something smaller and smaller as you move it further and further to the right.

Answer 7

0 is 0

Answer 8

You logically don't want to think illogically. Your understanding is illogical. The term 0 represents "nothing". "10" represents an expression of a quantity. The zero is used after the 1 to illustrate that point. What other logical number could it have been?

Answer 9

If that is the kind of question you ask then you shoud read the Book of Curious and Interesting Numbers which is essentially a dictionary of numbers. It gives you lots of information from mathmatical explanations as some of the good people who have already answered this question have but other things too like a history of man's understanding of certain numbers like 0 and -1. You can even find out strange numbers that you never even heard of before like wierd and abundant numbers!

You can either open it a random page and see what you find or start at the beginning.

Here is a link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Penguin-Dictionary-Curious-Interesting-Numbers/dp/0140261494

Answer 10

when you add those zeros, you chabge the value of the othere numerals. The value depends on its place. Take for example:
123
3=3
2=20
1=100

now add a zero
1230
3=30
2*200
1*1000

Answer 11

We work under the decimal code which is on groups of ten. The zero is the sign that a full round or lap of ten has been completed. it is far better than the roman numeral system. Zero actually has a value in true mathatical terms, it's value is half of the difference between one and minus one.