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I just like how <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Aleph-0.html">WolframMathWorld</a> summed up that whole Aleph-0 craziness:
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<p>Renteln and Dundes (2005) give the following humorous mathematical analog of the "99 bottles of beer on the wall" drinking song, which refers to its property that aleph_0-1=aleph_0: "Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall, Aleph-null bottles of beer, Take one down, and pass it around, Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall" (repeat).</p>
<p>Incidentally, another variant runs, "99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer, Take one down, Put it back up, 99 bottles of beer on the wall" (repeat).</p>
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Silly, yes, but with that in mind, I chose 0. But an interesting point [chacham] made:
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<i>Hence, the poll question is really, what is the first representational digit in base 1, colloquially asked as "what is the first number after 0".</i>
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So, once one moves from 0, say addition (after zero) or subtraction (before zero), are they then stuck forever on 1 or -1???
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