I'm glad you said that. It needed to be said.
At 06:07 AM 12/30/2002 -0500, you wrote:
Zero is not a number, it is a place holder. Funny thing is that without it
mathematics is very difficult.
Ciao,
Graywolf
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----- 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
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. --Groucho Marx
