MetaFilter posts tagged with zero

Saved By Zero Kills

owtytrof — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:10:29 -0800

Saved by Zero Kills (slyt) [via Consumerist] Mashup of Toyota's "Saved by Zero" promotion and The Ring trailer.

There are no Escalators in Wyoming.

Lord_Pall — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:39:18 -0800

Wonkette asks: How many Escalators are there in Wyoming? There appears to be a plethora of supporting evidence that in fact, there are no escalators in Wyoming.

What's it all mean?

Tommy Gnosis — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:08:07 -0800

Click here for nothing When you're online doing nothing, and there's nothing to see, nothing to read, and nothing to buy, you might as well settle for nothing.

OMG WTF NIN?

loquacious — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:36:21 -0800

I Am Trying to Believe. Well, maybe not. (Previously: Best, shortest review of a NIN cd, ever.)

Nullity and Perspex Machines

treepour — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 12:07:57 -0800

Dr James Anderson, from the University of Reading's computer science department, claims to have defined what it means to divide by zero. It's so simple, he claims, that he's even taught it to high school students [via Digg]. You just have to work with a new number he calls Nullity (RealPlayer video). According to Anderson's site The Book of Paragon, the creation, innovation, or discovery of nullity is a step toward describing a "perspective simplex, or perspex [ . . . ] a simple physical thing that is both a mind and a body." Anderson claims that Nullity permits the definition of transreal arithmetic (pdf), a "total arithmetic . . . with no arithmetical exceptions," thus removing what the fictional dialogue No Zombies, Only Feelies? identifies as the "homunculus problem" in mathematics: the need for human intervention to sort out "corner cases" which are not defined.

More than you ever wanted to know about nothing at all

Eideteker — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 06:39:23 -0800

The Zero Saga contains a great deal of information about the concept of zero, and its relation to other numbers and concepts in mathematics. It was linked in Good Math, Bad Math; which contains a variety of other informative articles on the numbers that capture our imaginations. (Note: You may want to skip past part 4 of the Zero Saga, as it contains replies to the site, and as such should probably be at the bottom of the page. But, to compensate, the comments on Good Math are better than most blogs I've read.)

Yes. This ring...it's Forerunner.

Smart Dalek — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:10:14 -0800

Halo Zero. The Fall of Reach, old-school style. Some plucky French coders have borrowed a page from Codename: Gordon, the side-scrolling homage to Half-Life. As a result, Master Chief and his cohorts are now fighting the Covenant in 16-bit, 2D graphics. PC download only - though Mac owners at least have Boot Camp to avoid waiting for an OS X port. via Aeropause

Oh, it's nothing...

moonbird — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:19:04 -0800

This post is about nothing. Zip. Zero. Zilch. Nada.