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Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months agoI’m an American mathematician, and I’ve never experienced a situation where 0 being an element of the Naturals was called out. It’s less ubiquitous than I’d like it to be, but at worst they’re considered equally viable conversations of notation or else undecided.
I’ve always used N to indicate the naturals including 0, and that’s what was taught to me in my foundations class.
kogasa@programming.dev 7 months ago
Of course they’re considered equally viable conventions, it’s just that one is prevalent among Americans and the other isn’t.
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
I think you’re using a fringe definition of the word “fringe”.
kogasa@programming.dev 7 months ago
I’m not.