From 964f2e0861ee339ee10ae00c263be21525cdaabc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Kerr <142398715+resonant-riches@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 15:05:09 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Fix mistake in hoon-school Atom is non-negative not non-zero --- content/guides/core/hoon-school/B-syntax.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/guides/core/hoon-school/B-syntax.md b/content/guides/core/hoon-school/B-syntax.md index ba9227b..be3f9b2 100644 --- a/content/guides/core/hoon-school/B-syntax.md +++ b/content/guides/core/hoon-school/B-syntax.md @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ _Everything_ in Hoon (and Nock, and Urbit) is a noun. The Urbit OS itself is a ### Atoms -If an atom is a nonzero number, how do we represent anything else? Hoon provides each atom an _aura_, a tag which lets you treat a number as text, time, date, Urbit address, IP address, and much more. +If an atom is a non-negative number, how do we represent anything else? Hoon provides each atom an _aura_, a tag which lets you treat a number as text, time, date, Urbit address, IP address, and much more. An aura always begins with `@` pat, which denotes an atom (as opposed to a cell, `^` ket, or the general noun, `*` tar). The next letter or letters tells you what kind of representation you want the value to have.