You must not be a programmer, or you'd understand that NULL !== 0 ;-) But my overarching point is that $329,000,000 is an absurd and arbitrary number, so for

You must not be a programmer, or you'd understand that NULL !== 0 ;-) But my overarching point is that $329,000,000 is an absurd and arbitrary number, so for my purposes, either value NULL or 0 would make my case.