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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (6 children)

I'd learned somewhere along the line that Natural numbers (that is, the set ℕ) are all the positive integers and zero. Without zero, I was told this were the Whole numbers. I see on wikipedia (as I was digging up that Unicode symbol) that this is contested now. Seems very silly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

But is zero a positive number?

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