Well there are always the classics:
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - a mad dream
- Brave New World - a dystopian(?) vision of the future
- Moby-Dick - a book about everything and whaling
Your point is not idiotic at all, indeed I was a bit unclear about that.
I did not mean to abolish zero, we need it to make the addition work and it is a perfectly good number as you pointed out. But although it does not fit in group structure of the multiplication it is still true that a*0=0...
Hi Zack,
If you really want to understand the problems in your example, you have to start at rather basic mathematics: the notion of a Group.
A Group is a set G together with an operation ° such that the following axioms hold:
Closure:
If a and b are elements in G the a°b is also in G...
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