Can anybody immediately see why nc and tar didn't work together the way I expected they would? [more inside]
posted by flabdablet on Sep 26, 2009 - 21 answers

Hey Librarians! Why is there a trailing zero on this Dewey number? [more inside]
posted by saguaro on Dec 20, 2008 - 8 answers

Zero waste is the topic. Turned up zero hits in my AskMeFi search. [more inside]
posted by valentinepig on Dec 17, 2007 - 8 answers

How many times should I zero the hard drive of a laptop I am going to sell? [more inside]
posted by bad grammar on Jan 8, 2007 - 18 answers

Does absolute zero actually exist in the universe or is it just a theoretical concept? [more inside]
posted by furiousxgeorge on Jul 18, 2006 - 23 answers

This page mentions, among other things, that "100 is the smallest square which is also the sum of 4 consecutive cubes." Obviously, this refers to the sum of 1^3 (1), 2^3 (8), 3^3 (27) and 4^3 (64). But it seems to me that the sequence can be pushed back to start with 0^3 (0), in which case you can get four consecutive cubes adding up to 36, which is a square. Is zero then not considered a cube? [more inside]
posted by ubernostrum on Mar 2, 2005 - 9 answers

The Number Zero: odd, even, or neither?
posted by Phatty Lumpkin on Jul 3, 2004 - 17 answers