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minus-squareKogasa@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·6 days agoYeah, it’s a matter of convention rather than opinion really, but among US academia the convention is to exclude 0 from the naturals. I think in France they include it.
minus-squareSchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 days agopositive interers with addition are not a monoid though, since the identity element of addition is 0
minus-squareLog in | Sign up@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 days agoThey’re not a complete algebraically closed field either, but I don’t see you advocating for including e - i in the natural numbers!
minus-squareSchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoyeah, this is kinda weak argument
minus-squareLog in | Sign up@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 days agoNot sure if you’re conceding the monoid part or not. We can agree that the natural numbers are a semigroup, I think, which should make us all happy.
minus-squareSchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoI hope that explains everything
Yeah, it’s a matter of convention rather than opinion really, but among US academia the convention is to exclude 0 from the naturals. I think in France they include it.
positive interers with addition are not a monoid though, since the identity element of addition is 0
They’re not a complete algebraically closed field either, but I don’t see you advocating for including e - i in the natural numbers!
yeah, this is kinda weak argument
Not sure if you’re conceding the monoid part or not.
We can agree that the natural numbers are a semigroup, I think, which should make us all happy.
Okay
I hope that explains everything