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Question If there are more than two numbers in a certain list, is each of the numbers in the list equal to 0

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Answer: If the product of any two numbers in the list is equal to 0, you can't conclude that the list is composed only by zeroes. In fact, suppose that you have a list of N numbers which are all zeroes except one. Whenever you multiply two elements of this list, you either multiplies two zeroes, or you multiply the non-zero element by a zero element, and so the result is zero, but the list is not composed by zeroes only.

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