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Here's one possible intuition: There is one ground truth, origin, fixed point like the North Star: zero. There are an infinite number of possible falsehoods: a
by gojomo 12y ago
Here's one possible intuition:
There is one ground truth, origin, fixed point like the North Star: zero. There are an infinite number of possible falsehoods: all nonzero numbers. But Urbit chooses 1 as the canonical false.
- randallsquared 12y agoWhoa. That does make it intuitive. :)
- vidarh 12y agoAnd this is close to the reason why you often see zero used a "success" in languages like C: There are many possible error values. So it's not very original at all.
- urbit 12y agoThat's correct. :-)
- deleted 12y ago[deleted]
- gfodor 12y agothis is that point where i get frustrated i can't post animated head-explode.gif's in HN.