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"It's an old mistake and not very costly in practice, but the intuitive rightness isn't worth the pain in the butt."

Why is it intuitively right?

"a string can be slack in many ways, but taut in only one"

0 is true, everything else is false. At least that's my intuition.

Huh! Pretty similar to my comparison to Tolstoy's quote on happy and unhappy families.