Email One

Be it resolved that another feature spurred on by this newly created site will be to find a suitably hilarious reason to email an anonymous person with a suitably random inquiry most Fridays. Spurred on by the debate over "infinity as number" below, who better to entreat in the first installment than the author of the excellent 2006 paper on the subject. Conveniently, the address was readily advertised at the top. And so:

Just thought you'd like to know that over Scotch and Smirnoff last night, a heated debate was had in Halifax over whether zero was in fact a number. Some foolhardy souls apparently were valiant enough to take the position that it was not, and were thusly chastised in a flurry of worthy rhetoric. The more interested debaters quickly moved the subject toward infinity, and whether it too should be considered a number. I was of the opinion that it must be, despite considerable opposition. So it was with no small measure of delight that I found your treatise on the subject via Google this Friday afternoon. I concur wholeheartedly with your conclusion, and you may be happy to hear that its arguments have swiftly crippled much of the opposition.

Many thanks. I wonder only if you could share a bit the story behind the research for the paper... and hope this Friday treats you wonderfully.