| 单词 | zero |
| 例句 | “We’re supposed to get a tall, fluffy, symmetrical tree. This tree”—Oliver pointed to the offending arbor—“fulfills exactly zero of our specifications.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Citra chilled when her piercing gray eyes zeroed in on her. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z As the probe approaches zero distance from the electron, the number of particles it passes goes up to infinity—so the probe’s measurements of the mass and charge of the electron also go to infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The school said it had a “zero tolerance” policy against bullying. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Newton disliked infinitesimals, the little os in his fluxion equations that sometimes acted like zeros and sometimes like nonzero numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z However, the Greeks so despised zero that they refused to admit it into their writings, even though they saw how useful it was. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She motions to where the bullseye zeroes in, over an area below the lowest waterfall. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z If the terms go to zero too slowly, then the sum of the terms doesn’t converge to a finite number. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z So India, as a society that actively explored the void and the infinite, accepted zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It showed the whole campus, then it zeroed in on the field of portables and the focal point of the sinkhole. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He says he’s trying to cut back on travel, at least until Mom feels better, but I have seen zero evidence of that. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z It would look bad if there were zero prints in the car. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z As the clock ticked toward zero, neither could find enough time or open space to take a clean shot. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Yet zero was inexorably linked with the void—with nothing. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Every letter of the alphabet was assigned a combination of ones and zeros: Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z All the matter in the star will be compressed into a region of zero volume, so the density of matter and the curvature of space-time become infinite. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z However, though scientists can detect black holes, they still haven’t spotted the zeros at their centers, since the ugly singularities are shielded by the event horizon. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But I have zero interest in moving back home, so to speak. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z They never considered adding infinite parts together even though Achilles' strides approach zero size; the Greeks could hardly add steps of zero size together without the concept of zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “It means zero in tennis. It’s a score.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Mathematicians in India first used zero in its contemporary sense—a number, not a placeholder—sometime in the first few centuries a.d. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z At the big bang itself the universe is thought to have had zero size, and so to have been infinitely hot. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, when my father opened his window, it made it about zero degrees inside too. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “You don’t understand—my life is already full of cooking. I have zero motivation to come up with a recipe.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Division by zero should be the opposite of multiplying by zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And, since the surface of the region shrinks to zero, so too must its volume. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “And I’m camping with my family, and there’s basically zero reception, and you text me that your dad just moved out. What am I supposed to do?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The opposition pounded the new president, zeroing in on his methods rather than his results. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z At the zeros of the universe, logic fails. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Apply this property to zero and something strange happens. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This was the view of most scientists: Einstein himself wrote a paper in which he claimed that stars would not shrink to zero size. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A recent bestseller advocated “zero tolerance” for errors and brandished the words horror, satanic, ghastly, and plummeting standards on its first page. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It only took its meaning from the digits to its left; the symbol for zero literally meant nothing if it was by itself. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z You can never cool an object to absolute zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It’s run on the x axis, meanwhile, is zero. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Before the advent of zero, TT could be interpreted as 61 or 3,601. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The atomists embraced the concept of the infinite vacuum—infinity and zero wrapped into one. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I unplug my phone from the charger and find that I have zero messages from Bo. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z This meant that multiplication by zero didn’t make any sense either. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The Greeks didn’t like zero at all and used it as infrequently as possible. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Just as the nothingness of the vacuum and the zero- point energy spawn particles, they might spawn universes. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She zeroed in on me and gave me an evil sneer. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z When I finished, the game’s credit counter jumped from zero up to forty. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z They simply pretend that the zero-point energy is zero, even though they know it is infinite. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z However, irrational numbers, unlike zero, could not easily be ignored by the Greeks. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I was afraid we’d run into Mrs. Singer, but then I thought she just had this certain thing for zeroing in on me, so Joey was like a protective charm against her. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In a sense these infinitesimals were infinitely small, smaller than any positive number you could name, yet still somehow greater than zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But you have to know, right up front, that they had zero sympathy for what they considered were my unremarkable struggles. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z With eight minutes left in the half and the score still tied at zero, Jeremiah Ziaty carved his way through the Fire defense at the top of the box. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Dad’s body froze, his wide eyes zeroing in on the thin, sharp point. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The temperature outside had fallen well below zero. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z These similarities were obvious since the Renaissance, but mathematicians had to wait until the end of the French Revolution before they finally unraveled zero's big secret. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The story of zero is an ancient one. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “See how the spinner is divided into ten different-colored sections numbered zero to nine?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Yet it was not the Greeks who discovered zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The first whisper of zero in the Middle East occurred about 600 B.C. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Worst of all, if you wantonly divide by zero, you can destroy the entire foundation of logic and mathematics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Except for the Mayans, nobody else had a year zero or started a month with day zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z One of these numbers, i, held the key to zero’s strange properties. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Once quantum mechanics was accepted, so, too, would the mysterious powers of zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z How does she zero right in on the thing? A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The rest of the crew would have seen the pressure in my suit drop to nearly zero, followed immediately by my bio-signs going flat. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In string theory, zero has been banished from the universe; there is no such thing as zero distance or zero time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Beyond that is flat Lake Ontario, a zero at the beginning and a zero at the end, slate-gray and brimming with venoms. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Zero wavelength equals infinite energy; zero and infinity conspired to break a nice, neat system of laws. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Now we are to get by on zero dollars a month in Belgian francs, and it doesn’t take long to figure out that story problem. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Not just a mere placeholder zero that represents an empty space on the abacus, but zero the number. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Computer failures like the one that struck the Yorktown are just a faint shadow of the power of zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The infinity of the rationals is nothing more than a zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Dad made his way to the bathroom like he was in zero gravity. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z When I tell the woman at the counter that I will pay zero dollars instead of the suggested donation, she eyeballs me as if I were some sort of criminal. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The dial was numbered from zero to 200. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Tentatively, therefore, archaeologists assign the invention of zero to sometime before 32 B.C., centuries ahead of its invention in India. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Unlike the Egyptians, though, the Mayans had a zero in their counting system, so they did the obvious thing: they started numbering days with the number zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Tex took me to a phone booth and I dialed zero and told the operator the number and yes, this was a collect call. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The north pole becomes the south pole and the south pole becomes the north pole: zero becomes infinity and infinity becomes zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z However, since the Egyptians, the Greeks, and the Romans did not have zero, the Western calendar does not have any zeros—an oversight that would cause problems millennia later. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A zero represents an answer that was left blank. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z And like the Babylonians, they needed a zero to keep track of what each digit meant. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z "Blood pressure zero, pulse rate zero, temperature normal." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z However, we saw that anything multiplied by zero equals zero! Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This put him right back where he’d been in 1904, arriving in a new land and starting over from economic zero. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The zero in the center of the painting contains an infinity of space. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was a foundling who finally tamed the zeros and infinities in calculus and rid mathematics of its mysticism. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was a miserable day, gray, damp, and somewhere around the zero mark. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He zeroes straight in on our joined hands. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z There were about twenty other Americans in there, sitting on the floor with their backs to the wall, staring into the flames—thinking whatever there was to think, which was zero. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I used to practice during the week in the simulator and in the zero G airplane, but I saved Saturday morning for the “slippery table.” Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “What did the zero say to the eight?” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z The implication is that by 32 b.c. the Olmec already had all three calendars and zero to boot. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I dropped out, I've been to exactly zero parties, and I've been asked out exactly zero times, including by the scum who got me pregnant. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z No longer was it necessary to divide by zeros. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But the fear of zero went deeper than unease about the void. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The same infinite sum of zeros can equal 0 and 1 at the same time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Around 500 BC the placeholder zero began to appear in Babylonian writings; it naturally spread to the Greek astronomical community. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Indian mathematicians did more than simply accept zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He zeroed in on my scalp and pinched a group of hairs at the root, sliding mysterious debris to the end and setting off a ripple of chills from my shoulders to my face. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “The guy was dead the second he stepped on the trail. Understand me? We all had him zeroed. A good kill—weapon, ammunition, everything.” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z By rejecting zero, the Greek philosophers gave their view of the universe the durability to survive for two millennia. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Try zero. That’s easy enough to remember,” Philip said, walking out of the shower room. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She pushed down on the scale—the red arrow moved from zero to one then snapped back to zero. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z And if you subtract zero from zero, you still have zero. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z So it was not ignorance that led the Greeks to reject zero, nor was it the restrictive Greek number-shape system. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Just as zero suffered from Greek prejudice, other numbers were ignored as well, numbers that made no geometric sense. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z We can think it through: What could dividing a number into zero parts actually mean? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It was through this invasion that Indian mathematicians first learned about the Babylonian system of numbers—and about zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z When your points are zero distance away from each other, your approximation is perfect: you have found the tangent. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The big bang creation from the void is a division by zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z To figure out the volume of a barrel or the area under a parabola, mathematicians added infinite zeros together; to find out the tangent of a curve, they divided zero by itself. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z What else came back to me, as the hockey ball zeroed in? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was a clear, black morning, encrusted with stars; the thermometer on the porch of Commons had sunk to zero. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It was a propitious time for zero to arrive in the West. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But as natural as zero seems to us today, for ancient peoples zero was a foreign—and frightening—idea. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z When I rose the next morning the temperature had dropped below zero. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z To the ancients, zero’s mathematical properties were inexplicable, as shrouded in mystery as the birth of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z When she says something about zero tolerance, Abby squeezes my hand. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Blizzards came and the temperatures dropped to thirty and forty below zero, and those who stayed at hunting camp spoke only in Eskimo and did only Eskimo things. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s sifting through the situation in front of us, throwing out all that is irrelevant while we zero in on what really matters. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z But the total energy density in “empty” space far away from the plates must be zero, because otherwise the energy density would warp the space and it would not be almost flat. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Most people would stand back and zero in on a tiny hole. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It’s no surprise that zero caused such discord. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z When I’m in the clear, I blast out of my skin like a cheetah—they go from zero to seventy-five mph in three seconds flat and I can too practically. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z From India, Muslims learned of the zero, which allowed them to invent what we still call “Arabic” numerals. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z One can’t be sure, because the date does not include a zero or a reference to the other calendars. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Who would dare to expect anything but absolute zero from a painter of swastikas? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z It states simply that in the long run the difference between the probability of some event and the relative frequency with which it occurs approaches zero. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Thanks to the mathematics of zero and infinity, Pascal concluded that one should assume that God exists. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Axel has zero time to waste at the door with Byrd and Ms. Dale. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Yet through all its history, despite the rejection and the exile, zero has always defeated those who opposed it. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Perhaps, given more time, Archimedes might have begun to see the lure of the infinite and of zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z If zero were nothing, the student could claim that the grades for the courses he failed did not exist, and demand a 4.0 average. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But even Leibniz didn’t realize that i would finally reveal the relationship between zero and infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The little superscript number signifies the number of zeroes following the larger principal number. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The eleven-year-old carefully penciled in the results for each game: zeroes for losses, ones for wins, and halves for draws. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It is the story of the people who battled over the meaning of the mysterious number—the scholars and mystics, the scientists and clergymen—who each tried to understand zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Tickled Pink demonstrated the process using her own card, and the screen showcased zero print jobs ready. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “This is the chart of physical pain. I want you to tell me, right now, from a scale of zero to ten, are you experiencing any physical pain?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Only one option remained for the church: accept zero and infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Quantum mechanics got rid of the zero in the classical theory of light—removing the infinite energy that supposedly came from every bit of matter in the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z According to Rees, the number of light-years to the edge of this larger, unseen universe would be written not "with ten zeroes, not even with a hundred, but with millions." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z For physicists, however, zero and infinity seemed utterly irrelevant to the workings of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They didn’t have the concept of a limit because they didn’t believe in zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z These troubles would have ended as an interesting footnote but for one thing: these infinities and zeros are the key to understanding nature. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But dividing by zero destroys the entire framework of mathematics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z If the baby turns one when she’s already lived a year, isn’t the only consistent choice to say that the baby is zero years old before that time? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z However, the speed at which the galaxies are moving apart gets smaller and smaller, although it never quite reaches zero. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “The answer is twenty-seven-point-four, because the zero doesn’t change the sum.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z On the other hand, Kelvin’s discovery of absolute zero told physicists what they couldn’t do. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z So it is zero outside, Quentin thought; soon he will raise the window and do deep-breathing in it, clench-fisted and naked to the waist, in the warm and rosy orifice above the iron quad. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z The only way to reallij learn that was to try it, although my old friend the zero G airplane was somewhat helpful. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z To Bates, that “no credit” was the equivalent of a zero, because Gary never had made up the homework by the time he was transferred out of the class. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh! It’s any number up, and zero over. It’s any number divided by zero!” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z And if you know a particle's velocity with infinite precision—zero error—you have infinite error when you measure its position; you know nothing at all about where it is. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Valley being a Spare would make sense, since she was always falling behind in all her classes and had zero friends. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “The probability of you succeeding with your plan was pretty much zero,” said Habib. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Jason thought he had zeroed in on Cupid’s voice—at the edge of the amphitheater about twenty yards away—but he wanted to make sure. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The areas of the little triangles quickly approach zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I focused my eyes away from inward prayer only to zero in on Lucy Raleigh, Miss Everyone Else, shopping at Korvettes with her mother. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z A zero in quantum mechanics means that the entire universe—including the vacuum—is filled with an infinite amount of energy: the zero-point energy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He included the new system in Liber Abaci, finally introducing Europe to zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I can set Jenny Flick’s future to zero. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z She was never home and had zero clue or apparent interest in what was going on with her family. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Dividing by zero once—just one time—allows you to prove, mathematically, anything at all in the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In the kaleidoscope of shifting conditions, what dose of a carcinogen can be “safe” except a zero dose? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Its rise is infinite: any number on the y axis starting at zero and going on forever. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Mathematicians ignored the logical and philosophical troubles with adding infinite zeros—especially since indivisibles or infinitesimals, as they came to be called, finally solved a long-standing puzzle: the problem of the tangent. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I opened one eye and tried to sit up, with zero success. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Not even a line—a pair of letters and a zero, lost in the code. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In other words, 3 is a zero or a root of the expression 4x – 12. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z To Descartes, zero was also implicit in God’s domain, as was the infinite. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Riemann merged projective geometry with the complex numbers, and all of a sudden lines became circles, circles became lines, and zero and infinity became the poles on a globe full of numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The week before, Maalpe had departed for a year at Cal Tech, and my interest in Herman’s type of biochemistry remained zero. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z In the same way that the steps that Achilles takes get smaller and smaller, and closer and closer to zero, the sum of those steps gets closer and closer to 2. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I zeroed in on the tiny, steak-knife ridges on the sides. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Adding infinities and dividing by zeros might be a part of mathematics, but it is not the way of nature. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z One seems like the appropriate place to start counting, but doing so forces us to put zero in an unnatural place. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z During the peak of ancient astronomy, Greek astronomical tables regularly employed zero; its symbol was the lowercase omicron, o, which looks very much like our modern-day zero, though it’s probably a coincidence. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Void/zero destroys Aristotle’s neat argument, his refutation of Zeno, and his proof of God. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Thus, if the Muslims were to accept zero, they had to reject Aristotle. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z As the temperature sank below zero, the men took turns at the oars to keep warm. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z You had to squint to see it, but a tiny red light inside the black eye was the only clue that the camera had zeroed in on you. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The long body glided by with the power of one hundred Olympic swimmers, seemingly with zero effort. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “In each case, the answers we got pretty much ranged from zero to one hundred. It was extraordinary.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z These numbers, pulled by the tug of both zero and infinity, spiral around on the equator forever and ever, never able to escape the grasp of either. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Dad gets carried away with his inventions; Mom’s a math teacher so she zeroes right in on things. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z By 36 BCE they had developed the concept of zero and sophisticated calendar systems. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z I counted down to zero and Dad turned the switch. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, really? Well, if x is greater than or equal to zero, then x to the fourth power minus six times x squared plus nine equals the absolute value of x squared minus three.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Dussel is slipping lower and lower in my estimation, and he’s already below zero. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The last thing I wanted to do was hang around the wharf in zero shade. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z And then she looks me over from head to toe before zeroing in on it. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z No longer could zero sit to the right of nine, just as it does on the top of the computer keyboard; zero had a position in the number line that was all its own. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He was the one who hatched the idea of limit and solved calculus’s problems with zeros. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The Greeks did not have zero, but we do, and it is the key to solving Zeno’s puzzle. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z According to quantum mechanics and general relativity, the power of zero is infinite, so it’s no surprise that people are hoping to tap its potential. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The time was ticking down on his stopwatch, from sixty minutes to zero. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as multiplying by zero causes the number line to collapse into a point, the vanishing point has caused most of the universe to sit in a tiny dot. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Maya can go from zero to one hundred a little too quick. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Some scholars believe we have long since passed a tipping point where the declining marginal return on imprisonment has dipped below zero. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I have zero doubt Drake’s space would make mine look like I’d gotten a visit from the organizer lady on this TV show about “the bliss of living tidy.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Gog’s ancestors couldn’t even count up to two, and they certainly did not need zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Most unexpectedly, Francis’ interest in DNA temporarily fell to almost zero less than a week later. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z But the version he learned did not have a zero—and the system would have been even less popular if it had. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This is a singularity, a concept that became very important later in the history of science—but at this early stage, mathematicians knew little more than the artists about the properties of zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z After all, zero multiplied by anything is zero; it sucks everything into itself. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The flow of time is multiplied by zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In the Kelvin scale, zero degrees is absolute zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z However, unlike Bede, he lived in a Europe where Arabic numerals were common, so he started counting with zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was an Italian architect, Filippo Brunelleschi, who first demonstrated the power of an infinite zero: he created a realistic painting by using a vanishing point. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The man who reintroduced zero to the West was Leonardo of Pisa. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The inventors of calculus, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, created the most powerful mathematical method ever by dividing by zero and adding an infinite number of zeros together. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z We saw what happened when you multiply a number by zero: the number line is destroyed. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Engineers spent two days getting rid of the zero, repairing the engines, and putting the Yorktown back into fighting trim. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Ema was so good at zeroing in on me when I spoke, making it easier to talk, making the rest of the world sort of fade away. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z The Muslims seized upon the atomists’ ideas; after all, now that zero was around, the void was again a respectable idea. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z An important event happens at the zero hour, not the one hour. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Before they could accept zero, philosophers in the West would have to destroy their universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But whenever someone closed in on him, he rolled his window down and let them know, even though they had their windows rolled up because it was about zero degrees outside. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z An Eastern concept, born in the Fertile Crescent a few centuries before the birth of Christ, zero not only evoked images of a primal void, it also had dangerous mathematical properties. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In the year 525, at the start of the Dark Ages, all Westerners clung to the clunky Roman style of numbers, and there was no zero in that counting system. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Who could ever forget her amazingly gymnastic tumble through zero gravity on her space walk in that episode about the space station? Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z However, everything in the universe is conspiring to stop you from actually reaching absolute zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But Harry didn’t care, he wouldn’t have cared if Karkaroff had given him zero; Ron’s indignation on his behalf was worth about a hundred points to him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It still said “parsecs,” the figures still ended in “1,000,000” and the indicating needle was still pressed hard against the zero mark. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Suddenly I feel like I’m in zero gravity, untethered from my surroundings. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z That troubled Kaylene and reminded her of just a handful of the thousands of convicts she’d worked with, including one woman from Smithfield who had chained a girl in her basement and shown zero remorse. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Wasn’t his fault, then. Wasn’t because he wasn’t trying to feed you. That man shoveled snow in zero weather when he ought’ve been in bed just to put food in your belly.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “Ah. That explains it. I just got a notification that it’s below zero in hell.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z And once I was up there, I zeroed in on the chest. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z The zero of a black hole is a singularity, an open wound in the fabric of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In the history of culture the discovery of zero will always stand out as one of the greatest single achievements of the human race. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The Greeks saw the usefulness of zero in their calculations, yet they still rejected it. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The shot swings around to behind us running, zeroing in on my right leg. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z At the very center of the coordinate system—where the two axes cross—sits a zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Euler was an excellent mathematician—in fact, he was one of the most prolific and influential in history—but in this case the careless manipulation of zero and infinity led him astray. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, nobody had spotted the time bomb lurking in the code, a zero that engineers were supposed to remove while installing the software. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But in the deepest infinity—nestled within the vast continuum of numbers—zero kept appearing. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The Greeks had learned about zero because of their obsession with the night sky. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “People sub out O for zero when they talk sometimes, right?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z But this is not a complete or final solution, for a zero tolerance on paper is of little value. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z At the start of January 1893 the weather turned cold and stayed cold, the temperature falling to twenty degrees below zero. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I bit into my quesadilla, wondering if this would be too much work for a group with zero experience. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Most appalling of all, infinity itself can be a zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z To learn this, mathematicians had to venture into the world of the imaginary, a bizarre world where circles are lines, lines are circles, and infinity and zero sit on opposite poles. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Zero dwells at the juxtaposition of quantum mechanics and relativity; zero lives where the two theories meet, and zero causes the two theories to clash. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Uh...anyway. I have zero interest in making movies. But you…” He shrugged. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Music and movement from zero to three: A window to children’s musicality. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z None of these tasks requires zero; civilizations functioned perfectly well for millennia before its discovery. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The ratio of zero to anything—zero divided by a number—is always zero; the other number is completely consumed by the zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z As usual, my eyes zeroed in on the pictures. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z However, even the Indians thought that zero was a pretty bizarre number, for all the usual reasons. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The freshman time trials were improving again as Bolles finally seemed to be zeroing in on the right mix of boys and seating assignments. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z And the ratio of anything to zero—a number divided by zero—can destroy logic. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The temperature plunged, dropping to zero, then dropping further still. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Dedd hesitates, but her mind is already racing backwards, year by year by year, to the moment she has fixed in her memory as zero. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Does my temper go from zero to one hundred in seconds? On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z We already know that 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, and so forth has a limit of zero; thus, as we subtract the terms from 2, we have nothing left. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z If you measure an electron’s position with zero error—you know exactly where it is at a given moment—you must have zero information about how fast it is going. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Grace immediately pulled the car across four lanes of traffic, swerving past two cars and exactly zero cops. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z As the papacy lost its hold on its flock, the Catholic Church tried to reject zero and the void more strongly than ever, yet zero had already taken root. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Just as Kepler measured the volumes of barrels with his thin slices, Cavalieri added up an infinite number of these indivisible zeros to figure out the area or the volume of a geometric object. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This is why people got along without zero for so long. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And there are monuments from before the birth of Christ that do not bear zeroes themselves but are inscribed with dates in a calendrical system based on the existence of zero. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Every letter of the alphabet was assigned a combination of ones and zeros: Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z In just nine years, from a base of zero, he became the leading authority on American plants. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Even though she has zero kids and nothing to do all day, she is the laziest woman I’ve ever seen. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z An infinite sum of numbers can be infinite, even if the numbers themselves approach zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I said, “Five doubled equals ten, then adding a zero to ten equals a hundred.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z But there was a more serious problem with Dionysius’s calendar: zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The two zeroes drag down the two A’s. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A progress meter appeared on my display, showing that my hard drive was now being zeroed out and wiped clean. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But we both know there’s zero chance of that. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z First of all, tomatoes are fruit, but anyway, ketchup is a condiment with, like, zero nutritional value. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Here at Montgomery, there is zero cell phone use during school hours. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z The church, too, dabbled with zero and the infinite, though church doctrine was still dependent on Aristotelian ideas. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Who introduced the idea of zero to the Western world?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The Egyptian civilization’s lack of zero was bad for the calendar and bad for the future of Western mathematics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And within ten minutes, Ireland had scored twice more, bringing their lead to thirty—zero and causing a thunderous tide of roars and applause from the green-clad supporters. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z And exactly zero percent of the preschoolers read the letters from left to right. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Once the wellspring of hope, Levittown is now ground zero in America’s new narratives: income inequality, the fraying of the working class, suburban poverty. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z You never need to keep track of zero sheep or tally your zero children. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Fibonacci had learned his mathematics from the Muslims, so he knew about Arabic numerals, including zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In both cases, Hoving and Zeri brushed aside a thousand other considerations about the way the sculpture looked and zeroed in on a specific feature that told them everything they needed to know. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z So the total energy of the universe is zero. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a point at which gas, in theory, takes up no space at all; Charles’ law says that a balloon of gas must shrink to zero space. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z God was found in infinity—and in zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “You know I don’t like recipes,” she told her father, while her dinner went around and around and the little red numbers on the microwave oven counted down to zero. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z No one goes out to buy zero fish. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And by rejecting zero and infinity, Aristotle explained away Zeno’s paradoxes. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Luckily, not all civilizations were so afraid of zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She herself had zero patience for dudes who wore their baseball caps backward and always talked about “getting girls,” even though Maya was pretty sure that they had never even touched one. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z However, there was a time where there was no zero—just as there was no seven and 31. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They included all the numbers from one to nine, and even an assortment of zeros. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z I'll drop the oxygen mixture to zero and breathe pure nitrogen until I suffocate. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Armpit picked up the receiver and dialed zero. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z It may seem bizarre to suggest that Dionysius and Bede made a mistake when they forgot to include zero in their calendar. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The father's mouth opened in a little zero of shock. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z It was a brutally cold winter, with temperatures slipping under zero degrees at night. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z What the two theories have in common—and what they clash over—is zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Since the Western calendar was created at a time when there was no zero, we never see a day zero, or a year zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Edna says when she sees me zeroing in above her eyes. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z When the pointer touched zero, he closed the bomb bay doors and, over the intercom, at the very top of his voice, shrieked: “Turn right hard!” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Anything times zero is zero, so all the tick marks are at zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z When you have an infinity in an expression, or when you divide by zero, all the mathematical operations—even those as simple as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division—go out the window. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This reincarnation was what gave zero its power. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I act delighted, but I have zero interest in these Capitol people. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z There was no infinity; there was no zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Instead of “We have zero bananas,” the grocer says, “We have no bananas.” Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Consequently at realms close to zero wavelength, the object gives off an infinite amount of high-energy light. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z When Pascal combined probability theory with zero and with infinity, he found God. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But as annoying as this property was, the true power of zero becomes apparent with division, not multiplication. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Something whirred and ticktocked at an uneven pace, and Emily finally zeroed in on a glass case with a structure inside designed to keep marbles perpetually moving up in buckets, down slides, and around sprockets. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z On a scale of one to ten on the how- close-did-l-come scale: zero. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Let’s tear through Tokyo from zero to sixty / yeah, like we’re running out of time in this city. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z However, none of these systems had a name for zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It's not so hard to show that this series sums to zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It zeroed in on Stef until it was an arm’s length from her. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The birds, once down to zero in the East, were gradually making a comeback, thanks largely to a falconer, Heinz Meng. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He and Phil, Harry’s brother, arrived in Chicago at the beginning of February to find the city locked in brutal cold, the temperature eight degrees below zero. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The first hour of the day starts at zero seconds past midnight; the second hour starts at 1 AM, and the third hour starts at 2 AM. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Multiplying something by twenty’s easy, you just double it then add on a zero. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z “If you think you can just say sorry and everything resets to zero, you’re even more clueless than you must have been when you painted that swastika!” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z And when Dade County zeroed in on improving what officers did before they encountered the suspect, the number of complaints against officers and the number of injuries to officers and civilians plummeted. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Mr. McCoy strode into the gym, straightening his jacket and tie, his gaze zeroed in on our group. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z “Not zero in a million. It could work.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I zero in on the alphabetical order, moving to the next aisle. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I hooked my finger inside the hole for zero on the phone and dialed. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z When x goes to zero, 1/x gets bigger and bigger and bigger and finally just blows up and goes off to infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I pressed zero and followed the prompts, first dialing Marcus’s number, then speaking my name into the receiver, and, finally, waiting. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It is not so easy to reject both infinity and zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Adding zero to a number leaves the number unchanged. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “It must be because of the zero. I’ve never seen a phone number start with a zero,” she said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Of course, we say that the child is six weeks old or nine months old instead—a clever way of getting around the fact that the baby is zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z You get the wrong answer because there is no year zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The very word zero smacks of its Hindu and Arabic roots. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z My score increased by 100 points, bringing it back up to zero. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Archie had only his wits and a bunch of guys who were all big zeroes without him. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In the 1850s, however, William Thomson, a British physicist, noticed something odd about Charles’ law: the specter of zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z By early January they had won the tenth, and people began to notice that there was still a zero in the loss column. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Zero times anything must be zero; it’s a property of our number system. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “The zero becomes a ten...minus three, equals seven...and the other zero becomes a nine, minus seven...so it’s one dollar and twenty-seven cents!” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z It is easy to visualize a square with width two and height two, but what is a square with width zero and height zero? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Perhaps the weirdest of all is caused by a zero in the equations of quantum mechanics: the zero-point energy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The old mom who would zero in on a project like a laser. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z “It was terribly cold—below zero,” remembered Leona Woods, a twenty- three-year-old physics grad student. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The snow stopped, but the temperature really dropped the next few days, so that getting up to zero seemed kind of hopeless. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Both women stayed at the elegant Hermitage Hotel, which became ground zero in the suffrage fight. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Multiplying two numbers was equivalent to taking an area of a rectangle, but what could the area of a rectangle with zero height or zero width be? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In any case, a symbol for zero—the placeholder in the base-10 numbering system—was certainly in use by the ninth century. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But on this morning the temperature was held in check by a biting wind that gusted down from the upper mountain, creating a windchill that dipped to perhaps forty below zero. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z In Einstein’s theory of general relativity, a zero became a black hole, a monstrous star that swallows entire suns. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She seethed, eyes roving through the crowd, until she zeroed in on me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z “So now Rowan and I are both zero for two at conclave.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The win raised their record to four and one overall and a perfect two and zero mark in the district. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Newton’s work was based on a very shaky foundation—dividing zero by itself. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “I’m telling you, he was one hundred fifty-three and zero. No losses.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The temperature hovered near zero, but I was sweating. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He repeated, shrugging, drawing a big zero in the dirt. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z And no, I didn’t say a thing about my surprise at him being able to understand the mathematical concept of zero. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Kepler, at least, wasn’t afraid of a glaring problem: as Δx goes to zero, the sum becomes equivalent to adding an infinite number of zeros together—a result that makes no sense. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Yet despite the Egyptians’ brilliant geometric work, zero was nowhere to be found within Egypt. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It starts at zero and eventually the galaxies are moving apart at a steady speed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1623, Descartes was twenty-seven, and Blaise Pascal, who would become Descartes’s opponent, was zero years old. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The origin—zero—corresponds to the south pole. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z What was worse was when he chose to zero in on one person in particular. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It is not obvious how to get rid of zero, as zero appears and reappears throughout time and space. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And so I zeroed in on my first goal of the day—getting to my first class without barfing up all my soggy, microwaved cereal. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Like the Zeno sequence and Suiseth’s sequence, all the terms get closer and closer to zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She would count down to zero and then go. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z It’s not enough and it’s never going to be enough, so I slowly count down from ten in my head and at zero we’re done. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Nor could the Babylonians add or subtract with zero, let alone use zero to enter the realm of negative numbers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But as zero came into the fold, the neat relationship between a number’s cardinality and its ordinality was ruined. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z However, since the Greeks rejected the number zero, they couldn’t understand that this journey could ever have an end. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Slowly he zeroed in on what he most wanted to know: “Why do you row?” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But the space between zero and one is all the world, and everything in it, so they aren’t exactly neighbors in my head. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Yet despite the deep mystery of the infinite zeros, Galileo sensed their power. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z After doing their calculations with Babylonian notation, Greek astronomers usually converted the numbers back into clunky Greek-style numerals—without zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Well, Crazy Horse was the biggest reason the Lakota and Cheyenne won the battle. December twenty-first, 1866, was the start of winter. The temperature that day was thirty degrees below zero.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The truth is, I have zero guts and zero game. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z At night the temperature is bitter cold, as much as two hundred degrees below zero, but at noontime near the equator it can reach a comfortable sixty-five degrees. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I stole a bunch of blank report cards from the school library rather than have Ma see my horrible grades, which were basically zero since I never showed up. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Tonight most of the British Isles will see temperatures plunging well below zero. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z In the window there are posters of a man cycling, a woman in ski gear, and a man and woman running side by side, with celebrity smiles and zero sweat. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, the Greeks and Romans hated zero so much that they clung to their own Egyptian-like notation rather than convert to the Babylonian system, even though the Babylonian system was easier to use. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In Europe, zero was an outcast, but in India and later in the Arab lands, it flourished. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The lack of a year zero began to cause problems two centuries later. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I had zero intention of getting into “normal” with that abnormality. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Now that I see how unwieldy and overpowered his swing is, I have zero doubt he’ll mistime it and swing too soon. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z There is no such number that, when multiplied by zero, yields one—at least no number that we’ve met. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A piece of paper large enough to have all the zeroes in a googolplex written out explicitly could not be stuffed into the known universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z No matter what your outlook, it is always better to believe in God, thanks to the magic of zero and infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In the winter, the temperature can sink to 100 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z A zero in a string of digits takes its meaning from some other digit to its left. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z How far I’ve come from being that invisible girl with zero friends. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z But the electromagnetic spectrum runs to zero in one direction and infinity in the other, so really, children, mathematically, all of light is invisible. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z When we last saw zero, it was simply a placeholder. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Even if the zeros at the center of black holes don’t provide an easy way to travel through space, the zero of quantum mechanics provides an alternative: the zero-point energy might be the ultimate fuel. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The shoulder of the road is ground zero for a meteor shower of bottles, cans, tires, hubcaps, French fry holders, and discarded shopping bags. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Islam would take zero from India—and the West would eventually take it from Islam. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z All the letters that represent zeros are in italics, so if someone knows what I’ve done, they could decode this. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The numbers went 0, 1,2, 3: zero came first, one was second in line, and two was in third place. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The problem is, when we try to calculate all the way down to zero distance, the equation blows up in our face and gives us meaningless answers—things like infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Zero was at the center of the coordinate system, and zero was implicit in each geometric shape. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They don’t go all the way to zero distance from the electron when they calculate the electron’s true mass and charge; they stop short of zero at an arbitrary distance. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z My eyes flew open and zeroed in on the glowing digits of my alarm clock. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Modern mathematicians know that the terms have a limit; the numbers 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, and so forth are approaching zero as their limit. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She laughs and looks down at the floor, and I have zero doubt her cheeks are all pink. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Add two and zero and you get two; it is as if you never bothered to add the numbers in the first place. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Everyone’s oxygen had long since run out, making the group more vulnerable to the windchill, which exceeded a hundred below zero. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I sign my name next to a number with many zeros, to promise payment. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It is at the zero hour of the big bang and the ground zero of the black hole that the mathematical equations that describe our world stop making sense. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z My head spun just trying to think of that number, with three beautiful, fat zeros behind it. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z In fact, Egyptian civilization was bad for math in more ways than one; it was not just the absence of a zero that caused future difficulties. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z As mathematicians were uncovering the connection between zero and infinity, physicists began to encounter zeros in the natural world; zero crossed over from mathematics to physics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z As zero spread through the Arab lands, the Muslims embraced it and rejected Aristotle. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was finally unmistakable: infinity and zero are inseparable and are essential to mathematics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Right. Faith in God. That's a good idea. I'd also like to believe that I could fly into outer space on the fluffy backs of giant penguins and screw Katherine XIX in zero gravity.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z However, though zero appeared and reappeared throughout Descartes’s philosophy, Descartes insisted unto his death that the void—the ultimate zero—does not exist. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A small red number—a zero—printed in the same style as the ones I'd seen underneath the porch of our house and under the banks of our sector's lake. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Okay, I knew nothing about dances and had planned zero percent of this one. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z A curving window of nonreflecting glass was the first break in the universal metal, and below it was a single large dial, with a single motionless needle hard against the zero mark. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Because of this, the West could not accept zero for nearly two millennia. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Yet as deadly as the secret that Hippasus revealed was, it was small compared to the dangers of zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The tangent problem and the area problem both ran afoul of the same difficulties with infinities and zeros. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The odds of leaving Auschwitz alive were almost zero. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Then I hide it back in the pocket of my winter coat I’ve never worn, since I’ve read zero books after I married Leroy and I don’t want to make him suspicious with this one. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z However, once the West embraced zero, mathematicians began to tame the infinite and ended Achilles’ race. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Though it was armored against weapons, nobody had thought to defend the Yorktown from zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Unlike the other digits in the Babylonian system, zero never was allowed to stand alone—for good reason. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But Creekwood’s zero tolerance bullying policy is enforced about as strictly as the freaking dress code. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Dividing a number by zero yields infinity; dividing a number by infinity yields zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The graduates then headed off to stateside service at bases like Maryland’s Naval Air Station Patuxent River, ground zero for the navy’s flight test activity. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Christianity initially rejected zero, but trade would soon demand it. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I ran to help her, but the serpent had already zeroed in on the new threat Even with only one eye, its glare was enough to paralyze two chariot drivers. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z After all, the numbers in the sequence get closer and closer to zero; naively, one would guess that this would ensure that the sum remains finite. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Then she gets back to business, arching one eyebrow as she zeroes in on me. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z “Let’s go find our friends. After that we can come back. But if we take them now, we’ll have no chance.You hear me? Absolutely zero.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z It starts at zero, increases to a maximum, and then decreases to zero again. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Maya also had zero intentions of telling her dad about said life-altering plans. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z My record shows that I flunked kindergarten and in first grade had no IQ—a zero IQ. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The next morning, my brother, who had a zero period and always left for school an hour before I did, stopped by my room to borrow the Wu-Tang CD I’d stolen from him. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Thus, no matter what you do, multiplying a number by zero gives you zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Dionysius didn’t have a zero, so he started the calendar with year 1, just as the ancients before him had started theirs. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In essence, it was zero, and could be ignored. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But nowadays everybody knows that zero can’t really sit anywhere on the number line, because it has a definite numerical value of its own. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Take zero away from two and you get two. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Sign-carrying, card- dispensing, tripping, kicking crusaders revved up their efforts to reduce our number to zero. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This is because zero is different from the other numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Jenna had never really been into constant texting—even before summer—and had zero interest in social media. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z But this time, zero might not be so easy to defeat. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Something whirred and ticktocked at an uneven pace, and Emily finally zeroed in on a glass case with a structure inside designed to keep marbles perpetually moving up in buckets, down slides, and around sprockets. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z All they had to do was banish zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “The air is suitable. The water can be processed,” she says with zero emotion. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Only, instead of picking the smartest guy in school, Zach had zeroed in on somebody who didn’t even seem to know what a PA system was. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z In the following days Beans zeroed in on the hat. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z He had, like, zero body fat, so every muscle was right there and I could see he was sort of shaking. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Even though the terms themselves go to zero, they don’t approach zero fast enough. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z On it, there’s a cat food bowl with dried stuff in it, and drapey cobwebs up in the corners, and a fat spider that has zero fear of being evicted. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z If no one sponsors me, my odds of staying alive decrease to almost zero. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Though zero was useful, it was only a placeholder. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Showed them the jets through which at every twelfth metre from zero to 2040 it was automatically injected. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you think I have zero dignity or something?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Riemann imagined a translucent ball sitting atop the complex plane, with the south pole of the ball touching zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z According to a study done by one advertising research firm, whenever there are at least four different 15-second commercials in a two-and-a-half-minute commercial time-out, the effectiveness of any one 15-second ad sinks to almost zero. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Hadn’t he come to terms with the fact that their odds of not catching the disease were almost zero? The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Multiplying by zero is like sticking a needle on the north pole and everything winds up at zero: anything times zero is zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z All the letters that represent zeros are in italics, so if someone knows what I’ve done, they could decode this. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Cultures girded themselves against zero, and philosophies crumbled under its influence, for zero is different from the other numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Modified Julian Date is simply the Julian Date less 2,400,000 days and 12 hours, putting the zero hour at midnight on November 17, 1858. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But with zero, TT meant 61; 3,601 was written as T^T. Zero was born out of the need to give any given sequence of Babylonian digits a unique, permanent meaning. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z At zero, his right arm goes up and the group unleashes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A gong sounded when the timer hit zero. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z He ignored his threat to begin at zero if anyone did that and made do with berating them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was also in zero and the infinite that Pascal, the devout Jansenist, sought to prove God’s existence. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z For one thing, Aimee and I zeroed in on skills I needed to upgrade, not just on the vault but also on bars, beam, and floor. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In thermodynamics a zero became an uncrossable barrier: the coldest temperature possible. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Below the zero it says no pain and below the ten it says unbearable excruciating pain. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Adrian came home two days later, drunk, smelly, bruised, and without a job because Henry Ford had zero tolerance for drunkards and their bathtub gin. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Even if zero were a number in the Greek sense, the act of taking a ratio with zero in it would seem to defy nature. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z If zero never entered their minds, it could hardly be a problem. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I squinted into the dark and zeroed in on the glowing digits of my alarm clock. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z For Newton to explain the laws of the universe, he had to ignore the illogic within his calculus—an illogic caused by a division by zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Nature has defended itself from an unruly zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A zero in the other great modern theory—relativity—creates another paradox: the infinite nothing of the black hole. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The business of the town, the shops and markets and streets, lively despite snow-flurries and zero temperature, seemed like a play, unreal, bewildering. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z This, in turn, leads to the most bizarre zero in the universe: the phantom force of nothing. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A black hole is a zero in the equations of general relativity; the energy of the vacuum is a zero in the mathematics of quantum theory. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “I thought only of what I would do if, when the countdown got to zero, nothing happened.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But this year we have to change, and if we don’t, we get a zero. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z At the beginning of the Renaissance, it was not obvious that zero would pose a threat to the church. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The woman has taken out a little pad and is making invisible zeroes trying to get her reluctant pen to write. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It is sometimes possible to add infinite terms together to get a finite result—but to do so, the terms being added together must approach zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z If medieval monks had only known of zero, our calendar would not be in such a muddle. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Zeno’s troubling paradox was explained away by banishing infinity and zero from the realm of numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A number line without zero could no more exist than a number system without two. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z "Ninety-seven point five percent is better than zero. Can anyone think of a safer way to get more time?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The church members grew increasingly distressed as they watched groups of migrants huddle and sleep, wet and with the outdoor temperature sometimes dropping below zero, along the nearby tracks. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He lifted the receiver and spoke into the mouthpiece: “It is now zero minus twenty minutes.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Every object is influenced by the environment it's in, so it’s impossible to cool anything in the universe—a banana, an ice cube, a dollop of liquid helium—to absolute zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And thanks to this system, zero finally appeared in the East, in the Fertile Crescent of present-day Iraq. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Tea floated out like liquid in zero gravity as the missile passed through a belt of sunlit gnats. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The number-shape duality in Greek numbers made it easy; after all, zero didn’t have a shape and could thus not be a number. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The big bang, the most puzzling event in the history of the universe, is a zero in both theories. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z After Hubble discovered the expansion of the universe, there was no need for a cosmological constant and it is now generally believed to be zero. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Say you are trying to cool a banana to absolute zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I had practiced this so many times in the zero G airplane that it seemed very natural now. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Absolute zero was a discovery that had a very different flavor from Newton’s laws. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Thirty-four point zero five. One hundred eighteen point twenty-five.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I heard his breath stop, and his eyes zeroed in on right field. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z If you look carefully enough, you will see that people usually do start counting with zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The curvature goes off to infinity because the black hole takes up zero space; the star has torn a hole in space-time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Honey, your dad moves around a lot. And I only have an email for him. The chances of him responding are zero to none.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z I officially hated this school more than any other school I’d ever been to, and had absolutely zero interest in making an impression. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, the zeros of black holes—singularities—look like unlikely candidates in the short term. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The equations of general relativity cannot deal with the sharpness of zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z His name was Arman and I have zero memories of him. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I zeroed in on the linen cabinet behind her, which reminded me of the day when I got my first period. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Rae sits shotgun, and I wind up in the third row, so there’s zero chance of charming her into talking to me on the way over. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z For the foreseeable future, banishing zero from the universe with string theory is a philosophical idea rather than a scientific one. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was about a zillion degrees below zero. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I zeroed in on the first instance of the building I saw and headed straight for it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z No, all in all, the thing that bothered Harry most was the fact that his chances of visiting Hogsmeade now looked like zero. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z That zero is not the same as nothing is a concept that baffled Europeans as late as the Renaissance. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z You’ve got to have either infinity or zero; a universe without both of them makes no sense. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He seemed to have forgotten that we were in a Dodge Caravan and not a BMW, because it went from zero to sixty in what felt like thirty minutes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z So far we are scoring a zero on the similarities chart. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z "What I hear is whining, and you seem perfectly fine," said Belet, expressing zero sympathy. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z But what happens when you multiply by zero? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He and Newton would tear the scientific world asunder, though neither would solve the problem of the zeros that suffused calculus. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z However, there was a problem with the scientific revolution: zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Indeed, zero was so abhorrent to some cultures that they chose to live without it. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Humanity could never force zero to fit its philosophies. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Like Kelvin’s discovery of absolute zero, the laws of thermodynamics erected impenetrable barriers that no scientists can ever cross, no matter how hard they try. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And all I could think about was how there is no way—zero way—Lu can run a mile. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z All the cooking videos make us hungry, while giving us zero recipe ideas for the International Festival. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction. Yep.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z In a millennium or less, a comparatively short time, they invented their own writing, astronomy, and mathematics, including the zero. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In tennis, both players started at zero, except they called it love. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “I still remember when we gave Mr. Henson our last payment. We watched him write ‘zero balance.’” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s hard to say just why, but we humans love nice, round numbers with lots of zeros. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “I know you celebrate together. I have zero intention of interfering with your traditions.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z It would be another seven centuries before zero reappeared in the West. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Ten or twelve below zero every morning, and when it warmed up to zero or so in the afternoon, it snowed. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Half-moon curve of the tuna’s tailfin is nothing but a blur, accelerating from zero to fifty in a heartbeat. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Instead of dividing by zero as Newton and Leibniz did, modern mathematicians divide by a number that they let approach zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He put the odds that this committee would pass on the legislation for a vote by the full house at “zero.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The score on the game was zero to zero, fourth quarter, making this the most boring game ever. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z We waited expectantly, and then Sherman reached zero and yelled, “Blast off!” just as the cherry-bomb powder detonated. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Infinity, zero, and the concept of limits are all tied together in a bundle. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Everyone floats, some upside down, like they’re all in zero gravity or something. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Take off the zero, and two times five equals ten. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z I went zero for two in the first game. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The first day we had no luck, selling a total of zero grapefruits. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z But for one reason or another, the zero was overlooked, and it stayed hidden in the code. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The infinite density of the black hole is a division by zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The eyes that Frankie had found mysterious and intriguing were narrowed as Tad zeroed in on him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Zero has not yet been banished; indeed, zero seems to be what created the cosmos. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And an infinite sum of zeros can equal anything at all—and everything at the same time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “I tried running on this leg the other day,” I’m saying as the camera zeroes in on my pipe leg. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z “I will go upstairs to the triple zero room, locate the appropriate encyclopedia volume, and check both ‘Savonarola’ and ‘Shrove Tuesday.’ Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z “But there’s no zero,” Robert complained, “no one.” The Number Devil 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s difficult for a modern person to imagine a life without zero, just as it’s hard to imagine life without the number seven or the number 31. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She then said that she was trying to explain the difference between zero and infinity. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z This number is infinitesimal—zero, for all practical purposes. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Like a big fat zero,” Hal once pointed out, finding great significance to that. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “I guess the answer is always one more, until it’s zero more. And you never know when the answer will be zero more.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Even the most devout intellectuals—the Jesuits—were torn between the old, Aristotelian ways and the new philosophies that included zero and the void, infinity and the infinite. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z "Okay, I'll give you a pass on that, but only this once. If you ever say anything about my brother again, you'll be left with absolutely zero friends in the universe." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Sometimes, when the terms go to zero, the sum is finite, a nice, normal number like 2 or 53. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z His own eyes narrowed, zeroing in on Clancy with pure, razor-sharp fury. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z If my reading was less accurate, the computer would start adding numbers in place of the zeros. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The first inescapable zero in physics comes from a law that had been in use for half a century. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I take a deep breath, dial zero, and close myself up in the pantry. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Even though mathematicians knew that calculus was deeply flawed—thanks to the mathematics of zero and infinity—they quickly embraced the new mathematical tools. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Employers openly discriminated against Irish and Jewish women with math degrees; the odds of a black woman encountering work in the field hovered near zero. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z They did not know how to use the power of zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In Pythagoras’s day, before the age of zero, pure logic reigned supreme, The universe was predictable and orderly. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But thanks to the odd mathematical and philosophical properties of zero, it would clash with the fundamental philosophy of the West. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z However, Poncelet had no idea that projective geometry would reveal the mysterious nature of zero, because the second important advance, the complex plane, was still needed. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Just as Indian mathematicians accepted zero while Europeans rejected it for centuries, the East embraced negative numbers while the West tried to ignore them. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z As she climbed "up" the ladder to the center of the ship, the centripetal force on her diminished to zero. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But without real weapons — without a pistol, a man-eating lion, and a vial of bubonic plague — I had zero chance of competing directly with Rowdy. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z To home in on something is to zero in or concentrate on it. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Put the zero back on, and twenty minutes times five days equals one hundred minutes. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Purchases will be required by law to end in either zero or five. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z She stood on the driveway, with her hands on her hips, watching as I stuffed boxes of T-shirts into the Sunbird, which turned out to have zero room for cargo. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z She knew the mementos I had and she’d zeroed in on the fishing lure mentioned in the letter to conjure her story. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Trouble zeroed in on his brother’s channel, shutting out the rest of the squad. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Arguably their greatest intellectual feat was the invention of zero. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Infinity divided by zero is not a number. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “We just had zero knowledge, less than zero knowledge, of the process. How to apply. The forms. Checkbooks. It was not our environment.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z When you try to calculate the slope of a tangent line, zero wrecks your approximation process. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Any temperature below zero is dangerous. You can get frostbite and lose fingers and toes. I saw a man who lost the tip of his nose. Worse yet, you can freeze to death.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z At zero, I touched the bare tips of the ignition wires to the battery. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Kissinger brought the proposals to Paris, knowing there was zero chance they would be accepted by the North Vietnamese. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I keep running and zero in on that camo trucker hat. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Their boots squeaked in the cold and their voices sounded far away, for the temperature was far below zero. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Nobody worried about dividing by zero when conveniently ignoring the rules of mathematics explained everything from the fall of an apple to the orbits of the planets in the sky. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was the same problem: infinite zeros make no logical sense. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There we were, all five of us standing around a car with the temperature about a million degrees below zero and each and every one of us crying! “ ’top! ’top!” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though the universe would have zero size at the North and South Poles, these points would not be singularities, any more than the North and South Poles on the earth are singular. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We appreciate the abstruse concept of equations breaking down through an example, division by zero, which we can understand for ourselves in either of two ways. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Start with the guy under the triple zeros wedge of the Wonder Dome,” suggested Kyle. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z I zero straight in on their hands, and my whole world stops. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z However, when al-Khowarizmi was writing about the Hindu system of numbers, the West was still far from adopting zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Physicist Marc Millis heads NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion Project and hopes to overcome this problem with the physics of zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The zero of the vacuum might explain the lumpiness of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I can’t walk around the school without somebody noticing me or pointing me out, and it has zero to do with the incident or the drug dealer rumors. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Born in 1596 in the middle of France, Descartes would bring zero to the center of the number line, and he would seek a proof of God in the void and the infinite. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Kepler ignored the problem; though adding infinite zeros together was gibberish from a logical point of view, the answer it yielded was the right one. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Infinity and zero are equal and opposite—and equally destructive. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z If you multiply by zero, you still get zero, and a thousand heartaches. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The infinite must be approached very carefully, but it can be mastered, with the help of zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Mathematically, what is most striking about this date is that the zeroes are true zeroes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Calculus was the very language of nature, yet its very fabric was infused with zeros and infinities that threatened to destroy the new tool. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Dionysius didn’t even have a choice; he didn’t know about zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “James Madison, the boy zero—you with me?” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z She picked both blacks and whites and children from both wealthy homes and poor homes, zeroing in, ultimately, on twelve families. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The infinite zero of a black hole—mass crammed into zero space, curving space infinitely—punches a hole in the smooth rubber sheet. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Every time mathematicians tried to deal with the infinite or with zero, they encountered trouble with illogic. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z "And it came up to the front"—she showed on herself—"and here it was tied in a—" She held up her fingers and made the sign for zero. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z As Islam spread, zero diffused throughout the Muslim-controlled world, everywhere conflicting with Aristotle’s doctrine. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z For the Arabs, and for astronomers relying on Arabic sources, Arim represented the degree zero of longitude and latitude. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Absolute zero is the state where a container of gas has been drained of all of its energy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The temperature was well below zero, but there was almost no wind: excellent conditions for a summit climb. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Division by zero is forbidden by the logic of mathematics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The infinite energy of the vacuum is a division by zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Just as zero punches a hole in the smooth sheet of general relativity, zero smooths and spreads out the sharp point charge of the electron, covering it in a fog. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She warned that if the levels dipped close to zero, a Belle could faint, sicken, or even die. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z He guessed the temperature had fallen below zero. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The space shuttle always waits for zero before it blasts into the air. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But she’s always talking about how brain-dead our school is, and how we have zero spirit and never get involved the way other middle schools do. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z This is the property of an infinitely distant point—a zero at infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The sun was shining almost around the clock, and the temperature had finally climbed above zero. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z It was way above zero and the skies were perfectly clear the day I turned unsuspectingly onto my street to find my Polish taskmaster daringly positioned at the end of her walk. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z It is no coincidence that zero and infinity are linked in the vanishing point. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, it was remarkable that Hall was even alive after spending a night without shelter or oxygen at 28,700 feet in hurricane-force winds and windchill of one hundred degrees below zero. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z After eight days at zero G, our bodies weren’t accustomed to gravity or deceleration, and our good old earth one G seemed heavy indeed. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z However, zero is too powerful even for nature. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “It must be because of the zero. I’ve never seen a phone number start with a zero,” she said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Yet zero sits at the end of the computer and at the bottom of the telephone because we always start counting with one. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z More to the point, I am wondering what the two-job way of life would do to a person after a few months with zero days off. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z As Ignatius was considering the delight which the little baseball game afforded humanity, the two sad and covetous eyes moved toward him through the crowd like torpedoes zeroing in on a great woolly tanker. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It is ten to the power of a googol—that is, a one followed by a googol zeros. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z To her this meant the temperature was zero, the point every year when she began to feel chilly. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was almost zero in the house and she did not hurry to get up. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Underneath every revolution lay a zero—and an infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In quantum mechanics, a zero is responsible for a bizarre source of energy—infinite and ubiquitous, present even in the deepest vacuum—and a phantom force exerted by nothing at all. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z His chance of survival might be a hundred percent—or zero. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z All he had to do was dial his conscience down to zero. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z To solve the problem, scientists set out to banish zero yet once more and unify the rules that govern the cosmos. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the first recorded zero in the Americas occurred in a Maya carving from 357 a.d., possibly before the Sanskrit. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Mother had eagle eyes, but she had almost zero sense of smell. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z And the most profound problems in physics—the dark core of a black hole and the brilliant flash of the big bang—are struggles to defeat zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There wasn’t enough blood left to maintain circulation, so his heartbeat was very sluggish, and his blood pressure was dropping toward zero. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though the individual terms go to zero, the sum goes off to infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z However, the brief love affair with zero and infinity was not to last. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Multiply zero by anything and you get zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “No. I really did try to get him to like you, but he doesn’t. I mean, you showed zero interest in him. How was he supposed to know?” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z In theory, scientists can get energy from the Casimir effect even at absolute zero in the bleakest part of the vacuum of space. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He couldn’t zero in on it, because the presence was all around them. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The train rolled through country where the temperature was fourteen degrees below zero. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And like most other civilizations Egypt did not have—or need—a zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I sit in my chair, the wreath on the ceiling floating above my head, like a frozen halo, a zero. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes I’d catch a ride with him, but he had that zero period in the mornings and he usually ditched me after practice to do something with his friends. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z If the rotation is zero, the black hole is perfectly round and the solution is identical to the Schwarzschild solution. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The dirty tricks of making squared infinitesimals disappear and then dividing by zero to get a derivative were no longer necessary. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Like how negative numbers deserve empathy because no one should ever feel lower than zero. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Newton’s and Leibniz’s calculus depends upon dividing by zero—and on numbers that miraculously disappear when you square them. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z We defined size as a limit—the sum of the carpets as the individual sizes go to zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z When the last light of Kangik disappeared, the stars lit the snow and the cold deepened far below zero. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In the centigrade scale, zero degrees is the freezing point of water. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I agree only because there’s a zero percent chance I’ll make it home before dinner. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z By definition, a point is a zero—thanks to the concept of dimension. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “You ever think about how weird it is that Earth is hurtling through the black vacuum of space, where it’s like a thousand below zero, and meanwhile we’re down here sweating?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z All my anger and fear and anxiety now zero in on the back of his head. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z When the spotlight zeros in on her and the song begins, it only takes one note before the whole bar loses it. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z A wormhole is a paradox caused by a zero in the equations of general relativity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Once again, let us consider the story of Achilles and the tortoise, which is an infinite sum of steps that get closer and closer to zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Instead, zero shaped humanity’s view of the universe—and of God. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This is the primal zero, the birthplace of the universe: the big bang, a furious explosion that created the cosmos. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The clashes over zero were the battles that shook the foundations of philosophy, of science, of mathematics, and of religion. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But the axiom of Archimedes rejected zero, which is the bridge between the realms of the finite and the infinite, a bridge that is absolutely necessary for calculus and higher mathematics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The game emitted two low electronic chimes and the credit counter jumped from zero to two. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The tests had questions you answered on a scale of zero to three, with zero meaning something wasn’t a particular concern and three meaning the client was bothered “a lot.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Aunt Pooh doesn’t go from zero to one hundred—she goes from chill to ready to kill. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z It freed the Indians from the shortcomings of the Greek system of thought—and their rejection of zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Zero divided by zero can equal any number in the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They are a combination of infinity and zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z So as Aristotle’s arguments were accepted, the Greeks were forced to reject zero, void, the infinite, and infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The easiest way to repair an unbalanced coordination is to zero in on the second coordinate and then force the first coordinate to match it by sliding its quantifier into a more suitable spot. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z If Boo knew the answers, he had zero interest in sharing. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Positive numbers, negative numbers, and zero all give you nonnegative squares, and those three possibilities cover the whole number line. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The answer is that the total energy of the universe is exactly zero. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The speed of the Earth’s spin varies from a little over 1,000 miles an hour at the equator to zero at the poles. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He always needed one more deal, one more zero added to the end of his back account. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Yet dividing by zero destroys the fabric of mathematics and the framework of logic—and threatens to undermine the very basis of science. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Then, suddenly, the engine cut off, the Gs went to zero, and we knew we had arrived. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Even without a zero, the Egyptians had quickly become masters of mathematics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Ekon rose more slowly and looked around again before zeroing in. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z A Frenchman, not an Englishman, would be remembered for taking the first nibble at the mysterious zeros and infinities that suffused calculus; mathematicians learn of l’Hôpital’s rule when they first learn about calculus. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Hey, you probably don’t want to talk about this right now, but you have given me zero details on your date.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Whenever he does these pieces, his answers require zero focus, so he normally hops on his phone and scrolls through Twitter and Instagram. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “No, for the weather. There’s gonna be record cold down there over the next four or five days. Gonna be well below zero in Atlanta tonight.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Another zeroing in on DNA, however, did not make sense to me. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z At least if you adopt a zero tolerance approach, when you next see a banner advertising “CD’s, DVD’s, Video’s, and Book’s”, you won’t just stay indoors getting depressed about it. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z The book showed how useful Arabic numerals were for doing complex calculations, and the Italian merchants and bankers quickly seized upon the new system, zero included. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Let’s tear through Tokyo from zero to sixty / yeah, like we’re running out of time in this city,” she croons. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The answer is ice, not fire, thanks to the power of zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z When the Yorktown’s computer system tried to divide by zero, 80,000 horsepower instantly became worthless. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Other Western mathematicians didn’t change the word so heavily and called zero cifra, which became cipher. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z To understand that language completely, science had to conquer the infinite zeros. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z "Oh. I thought the name rang a bell. Patients zero, aren't they?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Infinity and zero are simply opposite poles on the Riemann sphere, and they can switch places in a blink. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Banishing zero also solves the infinity problems in general relativity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z However, as Indian mathematicians had made quite clear, zero was the embodiment of the void. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Those caveats, which stem from the properties of zero and infinity, can become very important, however. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The entire focus of my being zeroes in on that metal tip. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Of course, zero space is the smallest possible volume; when a gas reaches this point, it takes up no space at all. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The biggest questions in science and religion are about nothingness and eternity, the void and the infinite, zero and infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z While some physicists are trying to eliminate zero from their equations, others are showing that zero may have the last laugh. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It takes up zero space, so there is no outer edge, no place where space begins to flatten out again. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z An hour later, Oliver had done zero brainstorming. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The first law says that you can’t create energy and the third that you can’t reduce temperatures to absolute zero; there will always be some residual warmth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Yet it was not the Greek number system that prevented zero’s acceptance—nor was it lack of knowledge. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z My eyes fluttered open and zeroed in on the glowing green digits of my alarm clock. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z After Christmas the thermometer dropped to ten below zero. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z “Noodles? Big mistake. Noodles have got like no energy. I mean like zero.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I take off the zeros and see fifteen over fifty. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z The weather that day, given the time of year and the fact that the temperature only two days earlier had been two degrees above zero, was remarkable. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z They do the division—perfectly legally, since there are no zeros—then they take the limit. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Normally this would be no big deal; most calendars of that day started with the year one, not the year zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I pulled up my indenturement profile, accessed my debt statement, and zeroed out my outstanding balance—money I’d never actually borrowed to begin with. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Now that your pain nanites are dialed to zero, it’s inevitable.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Zero conflicted with the fundamental philosophical beliefs of the West, for contained within zero are two ideas that were poisonous to Western doctrine. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Carlos's toothless mouth had collapsed into a dark zero. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Within zero there is the power to shatter the framework of logic. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Nobody was willing to say that there was zero chance that God exists. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Conversely, any civilization that engages in serious interstellar exploration and colonization must have exercised zero population growth or something very close to it for many generations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The man with the shaved head kept doing the head pivot, like a surveillance camera, and then suddenly he jerked to the left and zeroed right in on me. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z In the Babylonian system—with zero in it—it’s easy to write fractions. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She shakes her head as she writes my zero into her gradebook. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z To Bede, also ignorant of the number zero, the year that came before 1 AD was 1 BC. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Finn blinked at the boy in front of him, his eyes zeroing in on that famous Rude underbite. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Zero would clash with this doctrine, and unlike the irrational, zero could be ignored. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was always a zero for the Nazi dead. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Shining my headlamp on a dime-store thermometer clipped to the parka I’d been using as a pillow, I saw that the temperature inside the cramped, two-person tent was seven degrees below zero Fahrenheit. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z In this way you avoid manipulating infinities and zeros. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Those looking for a tale of cultural superiority can find it in zero; those looking for failure can find it in the wheel. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But the temperature had dropped below zero the past few nights, and as much as I hated staying at my aunt’s place, it still beat freezing to death. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A black hole with a mass a few times that of the sun would have a temperature of only one ten millionth of a degree above absolute zero. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But the Bulldogs were undefeated with a four and zero record and had stunned the Rebels the previous week in a 35-21 win. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Jimmy and”—she counts on her fingers—“eleven little boys who are five, four, three, one and zero.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I zero in on the redhead I saw earlier and head straight to her. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Any number can be written as a string of zeros and ones; to Leibniz, this was the creation ex nihilo, the creation of the universe out of nothing more than God/1 and void/0. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z |
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