what does ZERO represent for you ?

Question

you don’t necessarily have to restrict yourself to the number zero.

Answer 1

Zero is the beginning of all things.... it circumvents the entirety of all numbers.....making all the digits whole.....

without it... there is no one.....



your sister,
Ginger

Answer 2

I think there are several distinct zeros - there is the additive identity, the place holder, the limit, and the binary zero.

I suspect that zero first acquired a role with arabic scholars developing decimal notation as a place-holder. At first there was just a space or a dot to indicate "there is no number here", and zero as we know it developed so that it was easier to read and say a number.

Positive integers have a natural and obvious meaning in counting. In that context zero is suspect. It would be wholly unnatural to say the number of tigers in my bedroom is zero - you would just say there aren't any tigers in the bedroom (although personally I think the number is one).

In arithmetic, it happens that we can construct consistent and useful methods, especially in working backwards from a result to its cause, by inventing negative numbers, and an additive identity : a + (-a) = 0. In the modern world we are so used to using these tricks that we may lose sight that the existence of negative quantities in nature may only be due to the conventions we adopt becuase they are useful. For example in nature we can talk about the number of electron charges, or the number of proton charges. It is consistent to say electron charge = - proton charge, but we only actually see so many electron charges, or so many proton charges. We can talk about distance to something or from something, and (relativity apart) using positive and negative conventions works. But physically whichever way you are measuring you will use the same "positive" ruler to measure them.

The most useful zero at the human scale is probably the limiting zero. We can easily see that as the number of sides of a regular polygon increases the polygon approaches a circle more closely - the differences get smaller, and tend to "zero". And its common place for us to look at a dial measuring something, say outside temparature relative to inside temperature, and accept zero just as a boundary between readings on either side.

For anyone involved in digital computing, the digital zero is probably the dominant use now. Firstly as a place holder in binary arithmetic ( 0+0 = 0, 0+1 = 1+0 = 1, 1+1 = 0 carry1 ),
and secondly as a "logical zero" ( 0+0 = 0, 0+1 = 1+0 = 1+1 = 1) which gives an easy representation for unions and joins of set and the logical "venn diagram" interpretation of that.

Answer 3

Oh, the number zero will do just fine for me. It's my usual bank balance...philosophical meaninglessness...a hug (think of it as arms surrounding you)...the number I want to see 6 or 7 of behind a 1 and before the decimal point, in my savings account...nihilism...the last number behind 12, I want to see on my bathroom scale...the amount of sleep I'm going to get if I don't sign out of here, very soon.

Answer 4

Zero is the begining n the end, All Things begin with 0 and when things end they come to 0. So in a way 0 resembles GOD.

Answer 5

Allegra Versace wearing Dior.

Answer 6

ZERO represents LIFE .
It goes round and round .
Still it means nothing - But it is everything .
Every thing in life is within the limit .

Answer 7

The t shirt on the guitarist from Smashing Pumpkins.
Inspires the future and a higher intelligence

Answer 8

ZERO is a symbolic reference to the concept of nothing (no-thing).

Answer 9

A huge ring brimming full of those things that I have yet discovered, be they good or bad, happy and or sad.

Answer 10

an eight without a belt..if it fell over..it could symbolise eternity..or be ZERO..a funny word and a funny number..