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From: mike@arizona.edu (Mike Coffin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: exit(-1), 0 is sometimes magic
Summary: So is one
Keywords: exit, zero, flaming
Message-ID: <3475ore degaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 16 Jan 88 23:43:12 GMT
References: <502@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <6935@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1179@wjvax.UUCP> <1868@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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In article <1868@bsu-cs.UUCP>, dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
> [...]
> Zero symmetrically divides the number line.  If one had to choose ONE
> of the values on the number line as being unique, it would have to be
> zero.  It is the only value that isn't arbitrary, the only one that
> doesn't have a mirror-image counterpart (of opposite sign), the only
> one that can't be a legal divisor, the only one that, in short,
> stands out as "different" from all the other values.
One (1) symmetrically divides the number line.  If one had to choose ONE
of the values on the number line as being unique, it would have to be
one.  It is the only value that isn't arbitrary, it only one that 
is a multiplicative identity, the only number of noses on my face, the
only one, in short, that stands out as "different" from all the other
values. :->



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