On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 12:51:04PM +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote: > tomas wrote: > > >> 0 is not natural according to this source: > >> > >> https://dataswamp.org/~incal/data/numbers.txt > > > > That source is wrong half of the time. > > The sources for the source are: > > https://davenport.libguides.com/math-skills-overview/basic-operations/sets > https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/find-the-first-n-pure-numbers/ Extend your sources. They aren't wrong, but they aren't right either. I recommend at least skimming this discussion, which gives an idea on how diverse the whole thing is: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/283/is-0-a-natural-number The most interesting answers, which parody what has been happening here are those which say "it's this (or that) way because I learnt it in school, dammit". Cheers -- t