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"I have no spoon." Correct in a situation where exactly one spoon is expected. "There are no spoons here." Correct in a situation where there could be zero, one or more spoons.

The obvious answer is: because zero is not one. Singular means one. Plural means not one.

This example does sound wrong to a native English speaker. It contains a subjunctive mood construct and the correct version would be: "What if there were no stars in the sky?"

David Hilbert and Stefan Cohn-Vossen.

Hardy's "A course of Pure Mathematics" has been highly regarded since it was first published in 1908 because it was an innovative text: rigorous, modern, well-written. Its intended…

Apart from the Tk and Expect extensions, one of the best parts of Tcl its general extensibility through the Tcl C API. Unfortunately, this is one of Tcl's less well-documented feat…

John E. Hopcroft, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation .

> In the same way Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand’s prime ministers > serve at the King’s pleasure. It’s ceremonial, much like the monarchy itself. This is incorrect: th…

For all the pontificating in this thread about the need to follow safety advice regarding the wearing of seat belts (and bicycle helmets!) at all times, please note the following f…

Your counterexample is not even close to being accurate. Italy and Switzerland have much more in common than China and Japan. Italian is even one of the official languages of Switz…

It is called Pythagoras's Theorem precisely because Pythagoras, according to legend, first proved the statement of the theorem within the framework of Greek geometry. Proof matters…

I can confirm this is 100% correct. Anyone who doubts it just needs to compare quality of old editions of SciAm from before 2000 and those after 2000. The decline in quality is sta…

I watched the first episode the Sympathiser last week. It occurs to me that South Korea is the only Asian country that has produced significant modern-era (i.e. Cold War and later)…

I do agree that the "Deutschland 83/86/89" TV series was great espionage drama, but I also think your Eurocentric bias is showing. I have often wondered why Asia has been continuou…

I am English, and old enough to have seen "Sandbaggers". I don't know how I never heard of this show until I found the complete series on Youtube a few months ago. Now I am enjoyin…

A.k.a. "Le bureau des légendes": criminally underrated. Was available to view in Australia on SBS On Demand, where I serendipitously encountered it. It is right up there with the b…

> ... some terse typewritten notice from the 70s Personally, I rather like these these; they have a certain retro-appeal, in particular old Springer mathematics publications. We ar…

Some possible counterarguments: 1. Mathematics is a lot more abstract than it used to be. 2. Mathematics is a lot more specialised than it used to be. 3. Non-mathematical content i…

I read Silicon Snake Oil soon after it was published (1996) and I felt Cliff Stoll's views were excessively pessimistic at the time. He was definitely out of tune with the Dot Com …

I thought that a good Bayesian model was supposed to be demonstrably robust under a range of prior distributions?

Affair is the wrong word: Affair: a sexual relationship between two people, one or both of whom are married to or in a long-term relationship with someone else. "his wife is having…

Do read Dune Messiah , the sequel to Dune . I believe it was written specifically for those who failed to get the negative implication from Dune . Hence, it was not so well receive…

It is not even slightly weird. Consumption of alcohol by women has always been frowned upon, especially in public houses, not least by women, and survives today in the shaming of p…

The cities are clean and free of pollution too.