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"That depends what you're talking about 0 is not a member of the empty set or any set not containing 0 but it certainly is a member of some sets i.e. {0,1} contains 0." Indeed, an thus zero's existence is local to the set which you are talking about. The simple answer for the OP who has...

Okay, since most of you haven't taken a university level abstract math course, let me try to make this easy. The set of real numbers is part of a set of mathematical objects known as a "field." In order to be a field, it must follow a certain set of conditions, such as for any two elements...