Thursday 7 August 2008

The Mysterious '0'

Zero(0). If one is asked just one sentence about 'zero' the common replies can be : zero is zero; zero means nothing; zero maane laddu ha ha ha ha; zero comes before 1 etc. A cleverer answer will be something like : a whole number which is not a natural number.

A Bollywood Actor : Zero pyar hai, vishwas hai, apnapan hai, insaniyat hai aur jiske paas zero nahi uske paas kuch bhi nahi.

A psychologist :When a person listens a natural number then his positive attitude dominates and when he/she listens negative number his negative attitude is predominant. Zero comes in between these, so zero means neutral attitude thus leading to neutral

A physicist :

A chemist :

In comes a mathematician :
1. Zero, when used a divisor, always gives a quotient of infinity. Define infinity and zero will be exactly opposite to it.
2. Try removing the decimal from a natural number and spell the number. If you can do that, I'll tell you the exact definition of zero.

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