weird@sub.wetshaving.social to memes@lemmy.world · 5 days agoBig naturals is way easier to pronouncesub.wetshaving.socialimagemessage-square66linkfedilinkarrow-up1604arrow-down17
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minus-squareewenak@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 days agoWhy a subset? They’re the same thing right? I guess it could be about the zero?
minus-squareSchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days agoyou answered your own question
minus-squareewenak@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 days agoWell what I learned in school was that zero was both positive and negative. I knew some people consider the natural numbers don’t include zero, but I didn’t know for some zero isn’t even positive.
minus-squaredeltapi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-25 days agoI knew a physicist who considered 0 negative if she arrived at 0 coming from negative source numbers and positive if coming from positive sources. Something something sampling rate
minus-squareSchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-25 days agoit is neither positive nor negative
minus-squarevery_well_lost@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoIdentical sets are considered subsets of each other.
minus-squareewenak@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agoTrue But I don’t think they would have said “a subset of” if the sets were identical.
Why a subset? They’re the same thing right? I guess it could be about the zero?
you answered your own question
Well what I learned in school was that zero was both positive and negative. I knew some people consider the natural numbers don’t include zero, but I didn’t know for some zero isn’t even positive.
I knew a physicist who considered 0 negative if she arrived at 0 coming from negative source numbers and positive if coming from positive sources.
Something something sampling rate
it is neither positive nor negative
Identical sets are considered subsets of each other.
True
But I don’t think they would have said “a subset of” if the sets were identical.