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What do we call ourselves?
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A division by zero is incalculable. On computers, this is sometimes represented by a special value
NaN, which stands for "Not a number".So we could be NaNs? Although a few Anglo countries use Nan to refer to a grandmother.
Another benefit: NaN implies a kind of freedom. To quote from the cult 60's show The Prisoner: "I am not a number, I am a free man"
that would be so fucking rad
... I proposed this as well, and another thing NaN is quite close to is... Naan bread, lol.
Basically a kind of flatbread, usually associated with India, sort of kind of like pita bread.
Its pronounced like... Non, at least the way I pronounce Non, as a PNW dialect English native speaker, not like Nan, as in Nanna, or other similar words to refer to a grandmother, or sometimes mother, different vowel sound.