A plurality say the number zero is white. Click a color to add your vote.
The number zero is white because…
“Nothing. Zip. Null. ZERO. White is the absence of all colors, so it fits.”
“Zero is nothing. White is nothing.”
“The number zero is white because its plain, nothingness.”
“Zero is like a blank slate, you can go anywhere with it, just like white.”
“Sometimes white is nothing. A neutral colour. Zero is nothing; a neutral number.
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“0 is the base for all numbers, and (despite the technically infinite number of values) is generally considered the center of all numerical figures. Therefore, it can be related to a blank slate of sorts, just like how white is also a blank slate that is composed of all colors (at the ‘center’ of all colors if you will).”
“Zero is nothing and white is the absence of color.
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“Because white is the lightest color and zero is smallest number.”
“Even though white is all the colors, I see it as a lack of color. And zero is a lack of numbers.”
“Empty space in the middle.”
“It is blank like blank sheet of white paper.”
The number zero is black because…
“Nothingness.”
“When I think of black I think of nothing, and zero is nothing.”
“Zero is nothingness and nothingness is black because space is black.”
“Zero is black because it represents the nothingness and the void.”
“There is nothing, it’s zero, and black is like empty and a black hole, so nothing.”
“Zero is a void of nothingness, so it’s black like a bottomless pit, black like the never ending universe, and black like the world at night.”
“Zero means nothing. When I think of nothing, I think of an empty black void.”
“It’s devoid of color—nothingness.”
“It’s the start, and the universe also started dark.”
The number zero is grey because…
“Black and white don’t feel fully blank and like ‘nothing.’ Grey does.”
“Zero is in between infinite positive numbers and infinite negative numbers; grey is in between all colors and lack of colors.”
“Zero represents the concept of nothing, which is gray, since black and white are both something.”