Zero is not a number, it is a place holder. Funny thing is that without it mathematics is very difficult.
Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad Dobo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 11:58 PM Subject: Re: Vs: Numbers and the Golden Section > I think the most universal and mathematical number is '0'. Why that is, I > don't know, but why should a number that supposedly has quantitative value > represent 'nothing'. You can't put a value on something that does not > exist, yet we do. It means nothing and is nothing, but we make it > something. Just a thought. > > Brad > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bob Rapp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 11:44 PM > Subject: Re: Vs: Numbers and the Golden Section > > > > Ok, That is it! > > > > From: > > > > http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/pi/pi.html > > > > an excerpt: > > > > Pi is one of the few concepts in mathematics whose mention evokes a > response > > of recognition and interest in those not concerned professionally with the > > subject. It has been a part of human culture and the educated imagination > > for more than twenty five hundred years. > > > > > > Bob > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 3:37 PM > > Subject: Re: Vs: Numbers and the Golden Section > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: T Rittenhouse > > > Subject: Re: Vs: Numbers and the Golden Section > > > > > > > > > > Another thing that is bothering me about all these threads: > > > why is nobody > > > > complaining about all these religion posts? > > > > > > We're busted. > > > WW > > > > > > > > >
