Will pick a best answer amongs those whom elaborate on both numbers and why they pick "one" ...
2007-04-13 02:23:20 · 12 answers · asked by Yahoo! 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
This is a provoking question and I refuse to answer it!
Besides zero is not a number. A number represents a certain quantity and zero stands for nothing! Nothing! Why would anybody even discuss nothing? Does nothing exist? If it exists it is no longer ‘nothing’! So this is nonsense.
There is an aspect we all appreciate in zero. It is its power to signifying place-value. For example ‘1’ day off work is okay but 10 days is a vocation!
There are other aspects that we can bring a discussion of ‘1’ and ‘0’, but let us stick to mathematics and natural philosophy leaving say biologists and psychologists to their own devices.
;-)
2007-04-13 02:40:46 · answer #1 · answered by Edward 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well actually I picked "zero" for two reasons.
The first is it was the last number that was invented which has me fascinated because what did they do before they invented "zero".
The second is get a mathematician and write down "one" over "zero" and then then watch them go berserk that it doesn't exist. If you did "one" over "one" then they couldn't care less and just scratch it out and write "one" instead.
2007-04-13 02:37:45 · answer #2 · answered by erg322 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have ONE..You have something..
When you consider ZERO..You have nothing..Which is phenomenal, when you consider it..
I mean, is there REALLY a place in the universe where there is nothing? No. Even the "perfect vacuum" of space has one molecule of hydrogen per square foot.
Absolute ZERO has never been reached.
Think about the Cartesian Coordinate system..O,O has a special place..
Zero is the phenomenon
2007-04-13 02:37:19 · answer #3 · answered by colostomybag4fun1 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What are you a binary code freak? 0 = negative and + = positive in computing right? I'll go for 0 as I never could stand them positive type people. Did you know 0 is a value and not a number? According to my old I.T. teacher anyways
2007-04-13 18:48:12 · answer #4 · answered by . 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
zero is kinda trippy when you think about things like dividing by zero. Don't you think it's incredible that trying to divide by zero gives an answer that can't exist in our universe.
Just think of a dominoes pizza and having to slice the pizza into 0 slices. it boggles the mind
2007-04-13 02:32:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What I find fascinating are humans who find the numbers zero and one fascinating! I prefer cheese.
2007-04-13 02:30:44 · answer #6 · answered by Oliver T4 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Zero is more fasinating to me.
One is true, and therefore bland and straight forward. What you see is what you get.
Zero, on the other hand, is false. There is so much more mystery there, because the truth is unknown.
2007-04-13 02:28:48 · answer #7 · answered by firstythirsty 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
both. if all numbers can be sufficiently reproduced in the binary code -- using only ones and zeroes -- don't they both deserve a hell of a lot of credit? ;)
2007-04-13 02:32:34 · answer #8 · answered by paris_chem 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its your presumption that 'they pick "one"'
what if "they" pick 0? would that answer be considered as best answer?
To answer your question neither. they are just too small. 0 makes you a looser and 1 makes you lonely
2007-04-13 02:33:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i like 0 because it is more hard to manipulate than 1
2007-04-13 05:26:13 · answer #10 · answered by rodz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋