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Terminology questions are very very ambiguous in general without academic context bias. Ask toddlers if 0 is a round number. :')
by kaetemi 3y ago
Terminology questions are very very ambiguous in general without academic context bias.
Ask toddlers if 0 is a round number. :')
- ndsipa_pomu 3y ago"Round number" is specifically an ambiguous terminology though. You could use "integer" instead, but it's really more to do with the concept of significant figures. e.g. 129 is an integer, but 130 is a "rounder number" than 129 and 100 is rounder still. To make it more confusing, decimal numbers ending in 5 (before the zeros) are often considered round, 150 is rounder than 130. However, mathematically there's a totally different definition: A round number is a number that is the product of a considerable number of comparatively small factors. That means that 24 is rounder than 25.
- wiredfool 3y ago8 is twice as round as 0. Source: parent of 3.
- ndsipa_pomu 3y agoPrecisely. With ambiguous terminology, that seems perfectly logical to me.
- ksaj 3y agoTechnically 3 is equally round as 0, but half as round as 8. It's just split and flipped.
- hhjinks 3y ago0 is round because it's a circle.
- ndsipa_pomu 3y agoExcept that it isn't