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What is the Value of the Number Zero

Regia Marinho
5 min readDec 9, 2021

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Zero is not a number, it is a placeholder. And an infinite of other things.

Zero is not a number but a symbol. It is the symbol of nothingness. It is not a value that can be added to anything else. It is not a quantity. It is a symbol, a placeholder, a sign of the absence of quantity.

The quote of this article.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. — Carl Jung

It is the result of subtracting a number from itself. It does not have value, it is an empty place.

But this Zero art below has value.

Printable art on Etsy.

The question is a little tricky because the only thing you can compare zero to is zero. ‘If you have zero bananas, then you have zero bananas. What are zero bananas?’

Zero is the only number that is not a number.

It is a symbol. 1 + 0 = 1, and 1–0 = 1.

These are the only two numbers that are equal to themselves.

What is the value of number one?

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Regia Marinho
Regia Marinho

Written by Regia Marinho

I publish tech, art, food, AI, AR, architecture, interior design, fashion, and photography articles. Ideas to inspire the world through art. @regiaart

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