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by davidschmid10 on January 19th, 2007

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Can a zero amount of anything exist in reality? It doens't exist if there is zero of it, right?

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  • by cambsman on January 19th, 2007

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    A zero amount of plutonium exists in my pocket. Or I hope thats the case for my sake. But it still exists outside of my pocket.

    A zero amount of my hair exists on the surface of the furthermost sun from out planet, but even though Im going bald, my hair does still exist.

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  • by Anonymous on September 8th, 2007

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    If you had 0 pencils in your hand, it would be true that pencils in your hand do not exist, but pencils still exist elsewhere. Saying there are 0 of anything is the same as saying that there are none of something, just in mathematical therms.

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  • by jangobean on January 19th, 2007

    jangobean

    You have one apple. Take it away and you have zero apples.

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  • by unwantedguilt on May 23rd, 2007

    unwantedguilt

    there are zero dinasours on our planet today (although some of the politcians could fool you) yet they existed.

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  • by H_mood on January 19th, 2007

    H_mood

    Yes, lots of zero amounts, they are all gathered in the empty set ;-)

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  • by The Hockey Kid on March 14th, 2007

    The Hockey Kid

    of course! in the number 10,012 there is no number 4 yet it still exists right?

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  • by Mythistopheles on February 14th, 2011

    Mythistopheles

    Here's a philosophy perspective. While Zero has proven useful as a conceptual place holder in math, you're right. As a true value; nothing can't actually exist or be defined, because the defining entity will always have to be present and contribute the '1'. The closest thing to zero in reality would actually have to be either 1, or infinity.

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