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Expert: Sherry Wallin - 4/1/2009


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Is zero an abundant number?

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By definition "a positive number N is abundant if..." 0 is neither negative or positive. I know you are probably thinking that any number divides 0 and that is true but just look at how abundant is defined. 0 doesn't fit the criteria.

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Sherry Wallin

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I can answer most questions up through Calculus and some in Number Theory and Abstract Algebra.

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I have had my Bachelor's Degree since 1987 and have been a teacher since 1988. I earned my Masters Degree in Mathematics May 2010. I have been teaching at the same community college since 2002.

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I have taught 12 years at the community college level, medical college, and technical college as well as a high school instructor and alternative education instructor and charter school instructor.

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