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OpenStudy (anonymous):

what is zero?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

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OpenStudy (anonymous):

nothing

OpenStudy (anonymous):

The additive entity for the natural numbers and all supersets.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

There are two ideas behind zero. Zero can be a placeholder (e.g. to tell the difference between 12 and 102) or it can represent a quantity. This means that, in addition to what estudier said, it can represent the absence of something.

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