this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2023
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Are we trying to add unnecessary mysticism to conveniently useful things? 0 is just as truthy in reality as 1 or any other value in any imaginable base. That we typically assign zero to be false in most programming languages and assign one or all positive integers or all positive numbers or all numbers or all non-zero values including NaN to be true is irrelevant, and doesn't help illuminate anything. I'm either misunderstanding this post completely, or this is just a bunch of pseudoscientific horse manure.
Since no mysticism was used, but logical proofs and pseudocode, then meandering to 0 (funny double meaning there), I'm gonna go with you misunderstanding it completely.