In fact, in , Nick FitzGerald — then an undergraduate at the University of British Columbia — analysed thousands of books to see how many phrases compliant with Pilish he could find. This shows, perhaps, the strangeness of Pilish as a form — and that may indeed explain why sentences written in Pilish sound so poetic, since they are inherently exotic and unnatural.
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History of Fractions. Did you know that fractions as we use them today didn't exist in Europe until the 17th century? In fact, at first, fractions weren't even thought of as numbers in their own right at all, just a way of comparing whole numbers with each other. Who first used fractions? Were they always written in the same way? Since then, it has played avital role in mathematizing the world.
The mathematical zero and the philosophical notion of nothingness are related but are not the same. Nothingness plays a central role very early on in Indian thought there called sunya , and we find speculation in virtually all cosmogonical myths about what must have preceded the world's creation.
So in the Bible's book of Genesis : "And the earth was without form, and void. Declare, if thou hast understanding. Nothingness as the state out of which alone we can freely make our own natures lies at the heart of existentialism, which flourished in the midth century. Answer originally posted Feb. Sign up for our email newsletter. Already a subscriber?
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