Comment on "Take the medicine for one week" is monday-sunday or monday-monday?
akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
(The dates are examples.)
I just recently had this discussion with a colleague when I was creating a sentencing plan for a person sentenced to probation with six months rehab. I had written January 1st to June 30th and my colleague questioned that. They said it should be July 1st. I explained to them that if I had written July 1st, I would’ve been reprimanded, possibly hanged out on extremist vigilante forums or, in the worst case, fired, since then I would have said that the obligatory rehab should last six months and a day, which it is not. It is six months.
If you give the medicine from Monday (January 1st above) to Monday (July 1st above), you are giving the medicine for one week and a day.
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 1 week ago
The number sets have names that are reflective of that. Whole numbers are positive integers and 0 while natural numbers are only positive integers. You never see 0 cats, and the number of places where the number of cats is 0 is infinite (or approaching the number of places in the universe). Neither of those are really natural (not unlike cats) and are particularly hard to explain to younger people.
echo@lemmy.today 1 week ago
I have seen zero cats today.
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 1 week ago
I’ve seen two, and can describe them. Please do me the pleasure of describing what these 0 cats look like. Perhaps I can recognize them if I come across them.