Re:Is zero an even number?
by morsch on Sunday December 02, 2012 @02:58PM
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That's interesting, but hardly unexpected from a cognitive perspective. Zero is even, but it's not a prototypical even number (like 2). Similarly, if you ask people whether an ostrich a bird, they take longer to respond than with a more typical example. A very clearly (and simply?) defined category such as even numbers is an interesting edge case of the phenomenon.
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