Re: how can I return nothing?

"Malcolm McLean" <regniztar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Robert Kaplan once wrote a whole book about nothing. It wasn't a joke
or a modern art type book. Nothing is a very interesting subject. For
instance the innovation of zero was condemned by the poet John Donne.
Is a string of no sausages the same thing as no string of sausages?
You can argue forever about that one.

Keith Thompson <kst-u@xxxxxxx> writes:
It's on my bookshelf, preceded by Eli Maor's book about e, Paul
J. Jahin's book about i (sqrt(-1)), petr beckmann's book about pi, and
the Beatles' album "1".

Well... i is not really sqrt(-1) since there are two complex numbers
which are not equal to one another which power of two is equal -1 and
i cannot be equal to both numbers. :P

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