From Badiou to Deleuze

(This is drawn from Badiou's Being and Event (1988) (page numbers are from the 2007 paperback ed. of the English translation.))

Badiou opposes two concepts, the "count-as-one", and the "non-being of the one".  "Oneness" is a misspecification: "There is no one, just count-as-one." (24)  The count-as-one I will abbreviate as n.  It is the multiple.  The non-being of the one I will abbreviate as -1.

A structure, Badiou's ontological space, is "the multiple qua multiple, subtracted from the one in its being." (28)  What would be the shorthand for this structure?  n-1.  n-1, of course, already exists within Deleuze's writing.  It is the rhizome, the system of assemblages or machines that make up his ontological space, virtuality, etc.