Mathematics vs Null - What's the difference?
mathematics | null |
An abstract representational system used in the study of numbers, shapes, structure, change and the relationships between these concepts.
* 2001 , David Salsburg, The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century , page 8
* 2002 , Ian Stewart, Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos , page 38
A person's ability to count, calculate, and use different systems of mathematics at differing levels.
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between mathematics and null
is that mathematics is an abstract representational system used in the study of numbers, shapes, structure, change and the relationships between these concepts while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.mathematics
English
(wikipedia mathematics)Alternative forms
* mathematicks (obsolete)Noun
(-)- In many cases, the mathematics involved are deep and complicated.
- The answer is 'yes', and the mathematics needed is the theory of probability and its applied cousin, statistics.
- My mathematics is not very good.
- Their mathematics are not very good.
- Their mathematics is not very good.
Usage notes
* Before the beginning of the 20th century, it was proper to say "My mathematics are not very good".Synonyms
* (ability to use mathematics) numeracy * abbreviation: maths * See alsoDerived terms
* applied mathematics * astromathematics * biomathematics * discrete mathematics * ethnomathematics * metamathematics * pseudomathematics * pure mathematics * recreational mathematicsSee also
* (wikipedia "mathematics") * (Definitions of mathematics) * polymathExternal links
*PlanetMath.Org Encyclopedia*
Mathematics using gifts*
Mathematics Glossary*
Mathworld Encyclopedia
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Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.