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🗓️ 7 April 2025
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Through my "Operation Knicks Knowledge" experiment, I was astonished to learn that some professional basketball players have the number zero for their jersey number. Sometimes, a newcomer notices things that people with more knowledge take for granted.
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0:41.2 | I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier. |
0:47.9 | I've talked about my Operation Nix knowledge where I've decided to take a deep interest |
0:52.7 | in New York City's basketball team, |
0:54.9 | the Knicks. I wanted to see if I could make myself get interested in a subject, and I have. |
1:00.7 | Going to Knicks games have led me to many questions, observations, and many trains of thought |
1:05.5 | that I would never otherwise have had. For instance, I grew curious about jersey numbers. Did players get to choose their |
1:14.0 | own numbers? I looked it up, and the answer is, yes, within certain guidelines and restrictions. |
1:20.1 | Interesting. Then, at a game in Madison Square Garden, where the Knicks played the Denver Nuggets, |
1:26.8 | I saw that Nuggets player Christian |
1:29.0 | bronze jersey number was zero. The fact of players could choose the number zero for their jersey |
1:35.8 | absolutely astonished me. First of all, I was surprised that zero was considered a number for the |
1:44.0 | purposes of basketball jerseys. |
1:46.2 | This policy actually demonstrates an extraordinarily sophisticated understanding of numbers. |
1:52.6 | The fact is, humankind was very slow to recognize the idea that zero could be a number. |
1:58.7 | How could nothing be something? |
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