Re: Is zero even or odd?

From: glbrad01 (glbrad01_at_insightbb.com)
Date: 12/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:03:08 GMT

"Jabberwocky" <brendan.lyon@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Gactimus wrote:
>> I know 0 is neither negative or positive but what about odd/even? I
> think
>> it's even.
>
> It is essentially neutral for it signifies a number that isn't there
> because it lacks quantity. It is the symbol for nothingness therefore
> it isn't odd nor even. For example, take the addition of all numbers
> from -infinity to +infinity, what do you
> get?...zero!...nothin!....nada! The sum of everything is equal to
> nothing!
>
> In physics, the conservation of energy states that no energy can be
> created or destroyed. Therefore, if you add up all of the negative
> potential energy in the universe with the positive kinetic energy, you
> get NOTHING!....hence the total energy in the universe is zero.
> Therefore, we are all essentially made up of nothing.
>
> Sleep tight!
>

  If you have two apples and you eat the two apples there are now no apples
in the whole of an infinite Universe? Zero? What of the term "ground zero"?
Does it mean no ground? What of quality, or is it quantity, "infinite zero"?
"Zero point energy"? "Running a zero balance"? Hawking time zero on the
clock? My own four dimensions of time in which one dimension is zero
(history (pasts-futures), frequency, relativity (gain in and loss of), and
zero)? "Zeroing in on"? And, most particularly, "base2", "base4", "base8",
"base16".....?

  Zero can be an anchor.

  From 'Chaos' by James Gleick: "CONSTRUCTING WITH HOLES. A few
mathematicians in the early twentieth century conceived monstrous-seeming
objects made by the technique of adding or removing infinitely many parts.
One such shape is the Sierpinski carpet, constructed by cutting the center
one-ninth of a square; then cutting out the centers of the eight smaller
squares that remain; and so on. The three-dimensional analogue is the Menger
sponge, a solid-looking lattice that has an infinite surface area, yet zero
volume."

Brad

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