Potato's Weird Number System (Part 3)

Lol I'm still making this :D



Addition with Zero

We'd have to come to this at some point. You would think that it's not actually that bad for addition, just that you can't remove leading zeroes from numbers anymore.
50+65+0=50650
0+39=039
But we run into a problem. Where would the number 039 be on the number line? Well, we'd have to have another axis. It would be a number plane. Not the complex plane that you're probably used to, but something like a normal number line, with a kind of y-axis that would represent the number of leading zeroes the number has. So the number 0038 would be 2 units up from the number 38 on the 'normal' number line.



More Addition with Zero

This number plane would only have one quadrant. Quadrants III and IV don't really make sense because you can't have a negative number of leading zeroes. Quadrant II doesn't make sense becasue you can't really have a negative number with leading zeroes. 0+(-4) would be the number '0-4', which doesn't make sense. Also, the normal number axis would be continuous for all real numbers but the leading zero axis would only be available for whole numbers. You can't have 1.2 leading zeroes, but you can have a leading zero on 1.2. You have to put the number zero one unit up on the number line too, since it technically has one leading zero.



Subtraction with Zero

Very easy. 450-0=45. Note that you can also have leading zeroes on zero, so 4500-00=45.



Multiplication with Zero

Okay, what is 0*8? If you said 00000000, you'd be correct. But what is 8*0? Easy, you just write 8 zero times. So the answer is, of course, an empty void. Where would the empty void number be on our number plane? It would be 1 unit to the right of -1. The number 0 with 0 leading zeroes. The 'origin' of our plane. This is weird.



Division with Zero

000000 ÷ 3 = 00, of course. But 5 ÷ 0 is still undefined...



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Released Nov 19, 2024