I have looked at several different articles/explanations but they either have contradictory statements or they use esoteric language that I cant wrap my head around. pls help
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I do believe Zero is a number. All numbers are just concepts. 1 baseball is a baseball, two base balls are just 2 individual balls but the concept of 2 is the grouping of them. The label we put on the size of the group. The label we put on no baseballs is zero.
Side note:
I do not however believe in negative numbers. Not that the concept of them doesn’t exist but a -4 and a 4 are really the same.
You buy an object, its cost is 10 dollars, you have 6. You borrow 4 dollars from a friend. You now owe him 4 dollars. You could say you have -4 dollars. But negative dollars don’t exist, it’s still 4 dollars. No negative apples, wrenches, dollars, or baseball cards. Just a postive version of the object.
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