in reply to Re^5: The True but Zero value?
in thread The True but Zero value?

Yes, this is quite correct although here the string "5E0" is meaning something different that "zero but true". Here it means "hey, this is a special kind of Five!". But we get the same idea of expressing 2 things with a single return value. Here the idea expressed is that this is the "END" and the END value is 5.

E0 means 10**0 which is "1" numerically.
So, 5E0 is a way of saying 5*1.
The E0 means that this is a "special Five" and indeed it is with the flip-flop operator.

0E0 is way of saying "0*1". And that this is a special zero.
demerphq pointed out that 0E5 is also zero, the exponent doesn't matter. This means 0 * 10**5. However I see a certain simplicity to E0 (10**0)== 1.