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🔴 How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of Zero
"To use zero in calculations, mathematicians had to establish all sorts of rules. You can’t divide any other number by zero, but you can divide zero by any other number. A nonzero number to the power of zero gives you one; zero to a power of a nonzero number gives you zero, but zero to a power of zero gives you a calculator error — and a headache."
🔗 https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-human-brain-contends-with-the-strangeness-of-zero-20241018/
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"To use zero in calculations, mathematicians had to establish all sorts of rules. You can’t divide any other number by zero, but you can divide zero by any other number. A nonzero number to the power of zero gives you one; zero to a power of a nonzero number gives you zero, but zero to a power of zero gives you a calculator error — and a headache."
🔗 https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-human-brain-contends-with-the-strangeness-of-zero-20241018/
#Maths #Mathematics #Math #Biology #Science #Cognition #Neuroscience npub1fv25x0uawls034qqlleqymhx9wx574xt0ujlscjjzh5akjx0kars7rwutw (npub1fv2…wutw) npub17k5p2erx5fvm224hnqqgh9udeqzydglekx6pu5ch9qxssnjts6msrm5n07 (npub17k5…5n07)