Is zero discrete?

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jedishrfu said:
Natural numbers are known as discrete numbers since they are a countable set. Zero is a member of the natural numbers, hence zero is discrete.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_number

A countable set need not have the discrete topology.
 
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