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Re: manipulating structures [message #53343] Mon, 09 April 2007 10:05 Go to previous message
James Kuyper is currently offline  James Kuyper
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Kenneth Bowman wrote:
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> How can the sum of no numbers be a number?

Consider the total human population of all cities on the moon.
Naively, I would think that is is 0 (unless there is something very
interesting going on 8-), calculated as a sum of no numbers. Would you
argue that it is not a number? Would you argue that it is the sum of
some numbers? If so, what is the meaning of the numbers being added up?

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