`Is zero equal to nothing?

Answer 1

Yep, 0=0

Answer 2

It depends on what you consider "nothing" to be. If you think of it as a specific state of quanity of something, then zero is certainly "nothing". If my bank account has a balance of zero, then I could say "I have nothing in the bank".

However, if you treat zero as an element or object itself, then "zero" and "nothing" can take on different meanings in mathematics. If I asked "What are all the numbers which when multiplied by 5, equal themselves?", the answer is "zero" because that's the only number. If I asked "What real number times itself is equal to -5", the answer is "nothing". The solution set of the first is {0}, but the solution set of the second is {}, also known as the "empty set".

Answer 3

No. Zero is a symbol (hence "something") that we use to represent nothing. Zero is a relatively new concept. Nothingness was around a long time before we had a symbol to represent it.

Answer 4

By definition, zero = 0.
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Answer 5

hello, really it is an funny question, If you can divide something or a number by zero, that mean zero equal to another thing.
can we divide a number by zero? absolutely not, so 0 can not equal to another thing except nothing!

Answer 6

Zero is a quantity representing that you do not have any of a certain item.

Nothing is sometimes considered differently. It is usually null, the lack of anything.

Zero is scorekeeping that you do not have any count. Nothing states that there wasn't anything to count.

Answer 7

0 bannanas = nothing ox= nothing 0 apples = nothing 0 money equals skint so yes 0 does equal nothing

Answer 8

zero = zero

Nothing = null

Answer 9

I would say not, because the null set contains nothing.

but, Φ <> {0}

Answer 10

No. The closest thing to 'nothing' in math would be the empty set, { }.