Question

what is the difference between zero (0) and nothing?

Answer 1

1 is a word expression the other is a numeric expression ?

Answer 2

wait no

Answer 3

like c in electrochemistry , we use hydrogen as a reference electrode, , it is a standard of comparison, like in 0 , its a standard of comaprison, like above it r positive integers, below it negative integers

Answer 4

that's not the answer... i want the difference, and btw ur first answer "1 is a word expression the other is a numeric expression ?" is wrong, i learnt the difference some time ago, though i forgot, that's not the answer u provided, i'm sure it'll come to memory once i see it...

Answer 5

0 is still representing some value of nothing
there is still a value

nothing states nothing at all

Answer 6

btw i was correcting myself

Answer 7

Imagine there's a certain maths class, and in this class there's a fiendishly difficult 100-point midterm, and imagine that neither you nor I get even one point out of 100 on this exam. Except there's a difference: you are not in the class and didn't even take the exam, whereas I am and did. The fact that you received 0 points on the exam was thus irrelevant—your 0 means N/A, nothing—whereas my 0 is an actual zero. Or if you don't like that one, imagine that you and I are respectively female and male, both healthy 20-40 years of age, and we're both at the doctor's, and neither of us has had a menstrual period in the past ten weeks, in which case my total number of periods is nothing, whereas yours here is 0—and significant.

Answer 8

?

Answer 9

my zero means I had no mark, your zero means you had no mark... what do u mean? whether i was there or not, we both had no marks...

Answer 10

wadda bout my answer :D

Answer 11

the second 1

Answer 12

what do u mean by an actual zero?

Answer 13

LOL idk about ur answer, it's quite funny though... mth4v4. looks like you're close to the answer, zero is a value of nothing. you could say there's nothing in the basket... nothing,but when u say there's zero oranges, you actually mean there's no orange in it, value of quantity. nothing has nothing to do with quantity... it's just blank

Answer 14

but since its still saying a value of 0 number of fruit

Answer 15

you still know how much fruit there is by a denotation of the number

Answer 16

when we said there's nothing in the basket, we weren't specifying fruits...

Answer 17

nothing is clearly nothing
nothing at all

Answer 18

but once we said zero something, we are talking about the quantity of fruit in it, nothing could have been anything...

Answer 19

Let us suppose there are 4 apples in the basket. In that case, you can say that the basket contains zero oranges but you can't say that the basket contains nothing.

Answer 20

exactly

Answer 21

some number of things in the basket

Answer 22

the number is 0

Answer 23

0 number of what?

Answer 24

empty set {} nothing has zero elements where as a set {0} has one element the zero.
zero is a number. nothing is an empty set.

Answer 25

i concur, a number REPRESENTING nothing of something, nothing is an empty set... i guess we're done here, time for medal party!

Answer 26

this was a fun argument

Answer 27

i gtg to bed now :P

Answer 28

gn ppls