No such thing as 0

[Vipers]

cobra kid said:

Vipers said:

My car outside is doing zero mph.

What if it's been pinched?

I will hear it shout "O-uch".

[AndStilliRise]

cobra kid said:

Vipers said:

My car outside is doing zero mph.

What if it's been pinched?

A car can not be doing zero mph. It would better to say that your car was not moving or had stopped. Therefore not requiring the metric measure (MPH). As you can not have a 0 metric, it is in the same sense of having 0KG.

[768]

Except, of course, you can have a zero metric.

You can have zero sweets, because zero can be typed. Again, it's numerically equivalent to nothing, but it has semantic meaning beyond nothing.

[Todd Bonzalez]

Weird that people would write "0" instead of a semantic paragraph about nothing

[Vocal Minority]

ASIR - there have been numerous perfectly adequate explanations as to what zero is and what it is for.

I think you are just trying to stick to your guns out of pride....or you are genuinely unable to differentiate between the concept of zero and the absence of something physical.

But I think its the former.

[psgcarey]

Read this book......

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Nothing-John-D-Barro...

[Vipers]

768 said:

Except, of course, you can have a zero metric.

You can have zero sweets, because zero can be typed. Again, it's numerically equivalent to nothing, but it has semantic meaning beyond nothing.

Have we had zero Celsius yet?

[bernhund]

Hilts said:

Did anyone get the 'some people' reference or was it too obtuse?

I did. 1985.