Vacuous Truth

by Frank Paynter on April 18, 2007

Based on two data elements, one found in Wikipedia and the other in a thought experiment of my own devising, I am willing to posit that examples of vacuous truth often contain the color pink.

{ 4 comments… read them below or add one }

Winston 04.18.07 at 8:58: In that Wikipedia article, I am entranced by the statement about empty products which says:

…the result of multiplying no numbers at all is 1 …

Heavy, dude…
Joey 04.19.07 at 12:47: The old unix ‘bc’ program does say “0^0″ is 1.

[EDITED FOR BREVITY AND CLARITY]

…in HTML codes, pink is #ff00ff…
Tree Shapiro 04.19.07 at 6:53: I ‘ate every vegetable on my plate…
fp 04.19.07 at 7:53: Me too. I ‘ate them veggies.

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