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Mathematicians emphasize definitions not labels/names.

It doesn't matter if natural numbers include 0 or not, what matters is how you define them, not how you call them.

This makes them also bad at naming things because...there's a definition anyway.

Most other fields do not have or can't have the same luxury, so naming might be more thoughtful.



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