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Zero: Something for Nothing

Illustrates through an animated story of magic that zero is a number that has definite properties in mathematical operations. Utilizes a courthouse setting in which a mathematician's apprentice is tried for his unauthorized summoning of the "spirit of nothing." Shows the accused demonstrating with magic spells and portraying with dots the role of zero in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Copyright

Registered 21Oct71 · LP43750 (Jul-Dec 1974) Copyright holder: Xerox Corporation Production company: Davidson Films

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  3. The Weird Number - Rational Numbers 1970
  4. Dinosaurs' Dilemma: The Meaning of the Variable 1971
  5. Noah's Ark or Multiplying with Fractions 1971
  6. Prime Time 1971
  7. Probableman 1971
  8. Zero: Something for Nothing 1971
  9. The Case of the Missing Chickcows: Adding Positive and Negative Integers 1972

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Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, description, catalog record
  2. U.S. Copyright Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries (renewals, 1970–1978) — copyright

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