# Number closest to 0 **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [December 5, 2003, 1:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/number-closest-to-0/96147 "2003-12-05T13:55:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![junahu](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/junahu/32/365_2.png) [@junahu](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/junahu)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 1:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/number-closest-to-0/96147/1 "2003-12-05T13:55:20Z")
I want to see if there are any good mathematitions out there. This battle is to create the number closest to zero (or formula that creates the number closest to zero). rules: infinity is allowed as part of the formula. you can use as many infinities as you please don’t multiply by a decimal just to make the number closer to zero. 0 cannot be used two fraction limit (fractional indicies count). No identical indices no indices on indices any format. You can use a programming to create the formula only one loop if you do though Be prepared to explain if someone doesn’t quite get it. here’s my example; ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 2:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/number-closest-to-0/96147/2 "2003-12-10T02:50:16Z")
yeah, i was wrong ☹ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 2:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/number-closest-to-0/96147/3 "2003-12-10T02:51:09Z")
so i was right? YAY!! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 1:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/number-closest-to-0/96147/4 "2003-12-10T13:45:38Z")
negative numbers don’t have roots. Any number times itself will be a positive number ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/number-closest-to-0/96147/5 "2003-12-10T15:24:56Z")
That’s not true. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/number-closest-to-0/96147/6 "2003-12-10T15:41:16Z")
well heres my official entry: see this two? Its a number and its MIGHTY close to that 0! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/number-closest-to-0/96147/7 "2003-12-10T16:59:40Z")
😛 Nice. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 6:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/number-closest-to-0/96147/8 "2003-12-10T18:21:10Z")
lmao that’s awesome ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 7:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/number-closest-to-0/96147/9 "2003-12-10T19:18:39Z")
> \*Originally posted by junahu \* > \*\*negative numbers don’t have roots. Any number times itself will be a positive number \*\* iilay is right there is an imaginary number i = root -1 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/number-closest-to-0/96147/10 "2003-12-10T21:26:20Z")
actually infinity is the closest number to zero. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/number-closest-to-0/96147/11 "2003-12-12T13:31:08Z")
numbers exist as an arbituary scale. They have no meaning on their own. When they forget this students panic when x = 36 and y = something like a third.