I have already made zero (one) article about the BaseLibre numerical system. In this zeroth (first) article, I went ahead and talked a bit too much (for a zeroth (first) article) :-) .
In this (current) article I am explaning the zeroth (first) number.
Base, which does not have a number to represent it, is the reference, the context, of the counting. After Base, comes the zeroth (first) entity, which already can be represented by a number -- the number "0".
So, with BaseLibre, the counting starts at 0.
And, being so, to make sense, also some words need a different approach. For example, the meaning of "1st" has, instead, the symbol of "0th". When we want to say "first", we say "zeroth".
Also, other words that imply the number "1", such as latin words begining with "un", have to recognize that we start counting on "0". For example, the word "universe" changes to "zeriverse". The "un" changes to "zer", so that logic remains.
Other words, that I am remembering, are:
And, after "0", comes the number "1" (as expected)... To be continued...
tags: #baselibre #numbers #numerical-system
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