Fortran is easy to learn

Re:Fortran is easy to learn by Koshkin on Saturday January 08, 2022 @09:27AM (#29851925)

Try thinking of being the zeroth person in a line. Or your child being in the zeroth year of her life.

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Re:Fortran is easy to learn by ogogmad on Saturday January 08, 2022 @09:38AM (#29852041)

How many lions are in my room at the moment? Hopefully zero.

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Re:Fortran is easy to learn by Koshkin on Saturday January 08, 2022 @10:41AM (#29852671)

But zero sheep is not a flock.

(Besides, there's uncountably many things you have zero of in you room.)

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Re:Fortran is easy to learn by ogogmad on Saturday January 08, 2022 @11:01AM (#29852880)

> But zero sheep is not a flock.

So one isn't a natural number?

> (Besides, there's uncountably many things you have zero of in you room.)

;) Exactly. Zero is the most natural number.

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Re:Fortran is easy to learn by Koshkin on Saturday January 08, 2022 @12:55PM (#29854201)

So, on your scale, which is the first natural number?

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