atw: Re: Is "non-null" an acceptable term?

The context of null string is in programming, where the length of the string
is 0, thus it doesn't even contain zero. It is a void, a non-space, an
abstract. This is not the language of mathematics being spoken here :-) 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonn Mero

In mathematics zero and null is the same, just that 'null' has taken on a
different meaning from what it has in the languages the English stole it
from (German).  Zero, according to Collins ED, is from the Arabic sifr
which means empty. Six of one half a dozen of the other?

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