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What is in the following sequence that is not visible?
122333444455555666666777777788888888999999999
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The zero zeros.
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Well - I toyed with saying "13 monkeys", or "12 good men and true" first...
Honestly, asking a bunch of geeks about zero based lists... 
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I once toyed with thirteen monkeys too!
I was going to say "10 Lords a leaping"
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Yeah, I guess I'll have to try it on my friends (none of whom knows a zero from a hero). They are more Roman than geek, when it comes to numbers and numbering systems.
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Aye aye axe!
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
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Actually it is present (zero zeros, one ones...), but the quantum theory of zeros* don't allow our eyes to feel it.
*I made that up.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
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What's missing is ... (three dots) at the end.
Three dots would signify ten tens, eleven elevens, twelve twelves, etc. following the nine nines 
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I hadn't thought of that, but I would prefer the infinity symbol. And, if that be the case, prepend the lot with a negative infinity symbol, and so:
-∞122333444455555666666777777788888888999999999∞
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Can we agree to disagree on this?
The right one is OK, but what does the -∞ on the left do?
Cannot have 'negative one' negative ones, or 'negative two' negative twos, isn't it?
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Why not? If there can be two 2s, there can be negative two 2s, too, to give an example. These also would be invisible but, if computed algorithmically, would doubtless result in a stack overflow.
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B. Clay Shannon wrote: These also would be invisible but, if computed algorithmically, would doubtless result in a stack overflow
Agree.
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You forget, there are a transfinite number of infinities, and they are all different.
And why can't you have a negative number of anything? You never had a overdraft?
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OriginalGriff wrote: there are a transfinite number of infinities
... something like your CP rep points. Infinite for me, but transfinite for you
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Fortunately not - they are both countable! Transfinites and Aleph numbers make my head hurt when I think about them too much...
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An overdraft isn't a negative number it's a positive pain! In any case you can't have a negative number of overdrafts ... beiieve me, I've tried!
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That would of course be an infinity of infinity symbols.
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But they must be invisible (dark matter?)
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Come to think of it, ellipsis dots are not invisible (except for these: of course).
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Him (her?) too! Bengal or Siberian, no doubt.
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Do you know which continent has the most living tigers?
Depressingly, it's North America with estimates ranging from 2 to 4 times as many captive tigers in the US as still live in the wild where they should...
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That is both surprising and sad.
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