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Re:Why is the 0 next to 9, not next to 1? by Ansil849 on Monday April 26, 2021 @03:19AM (#26940116)
> Wikipedia is known for many things but not for its wisdom.

I was not the one who posted a Wikipedia link. I was only responding to the fact that the Wikipedia link did not support the prior poster's claim.

> Counting is counting things. For example sheeps. You don't have 0 sheeps. Either you have 1 or 2 or 3 or you don't have any.

Not having any sheep is literally having 0 sheep.

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Re:Why is the 0 next to 9, not next to 1? by BugsJustFindMe on Monday April 26, 2021 @06:04AM (#26940946)
> Not having any sheep is literally having 0 sheep.

Only if you ignore the difference between having and not having.

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Re:Why is the 0 next to 9, not next to 1? by Ansil849 on Monday April 26, 2021 @10:28AM (#26942845)
How is this ignoring the difference? The statements 'I do not have any sheep' and 'I have 0 sheep' are synonymous; neither statement ignores the other.
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Re:Why is the 0 next to 9, not next to 1? by hulitu on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @05:39AM (#26953832)
Those statements are synonymous in SW. Try to explain this concept to a shepperd :)
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