Pooch Cafe by Paul Gilligan for April 02, 2010

Transcript:

Gus: C'mon, Baby, lose the zero and get with a hero! Poncho: She's not "with" me, we're just friends. Gus: "Just friends"... the siren song of the loser! Poncho: So I'm a "loser," am I? Gus: I also called you a zero, in case you missed it. Poncho: Actually, zero is the cardinal number of the empty set, and is therefore instrumental in field theory and thus all algebra. Without it, and the ideas contained in the notion of identities and inverses, there would be practically no modern mathematics and physics. Gus: And what about the "loser"? Poncho: Yeah, that's insulting. Put 'em up.