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"One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs."
by dllthomas 4y ago
"One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs."
- layer8 4y agoInterestingly, at some point “N” began being used for zero, though apparently only some centuries after the fall: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals#Zero https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals#Zero
- glouwbug 4y agoPlebs would often go down to the water line and hold their ears up to Unix shells to see if they could hear the C