Re: Quantum Computers

What is wrong with counting the zero?
Well it is not a number. It does not express a real value. It expresses
the lack of a value.

So you are counting things, you are not supposed to include things that
aren't there.

So you make computers and compilers and you decide to make 0 a real
whole number and call it 1.

Well excuse me, but that is really not logical.

A 1, is the first number, when you are counting things.

And you will find in arrays now, you have to write code that iterates
through the array,
and has to include the value at spot 0 in the array, because someone or
ones, didn't have the simple sense to think that 0, is not a number
that you use to represent a thing.

It is supposed to be 0.

So what do you have then? Well you have 9 acting as 10 don't you? If
you have counted 10 things and the first digit is 0 you only have 9
fingers.

Sometimes scientists are so smart, they do really silly things don't
they?

So in logic true and false can be one and two, it does not have to be
one and zero, because actually zero would mean not defined as true or
false, because you cannot say you have a value there, when zero means
literally nothing.

And so instead of fixing this locgical problem what do people do?
They introduce the null.

And so now you have a zero again, because you need one, but your 0 is
doing the job of 1 and you have in essence renamed the 1 a 0 and all
the numbers shift one digit and 9 means 10 things.

If you wanted to just make it confusing so others would have difficulty
or to obfuscate the subject to slow down progress or any of those other
silly things why not make it base 13, with 2 zero's one at each end,
and then you could never really divide it in half equally or anything.

You could have round screens, and use tangents and cotangents and if
you really worked at it, you could make it so complex that you couldn't
even use Euclidean Geometry but instead you needed to use calculus.

That is really what people would have expected originally you know.
That to program a computer, you needed a white lab coat.
And they had us. Yes they did they could have controlled the world!
But they let it all slip from their hands and now anyone can program
computers and well there is no point now because it has all been done.

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