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How is it irrelevant to this discussion? Parent proposed that aliens will have zero by posing that question. I gave an example from our own earth indicating int

• naasking 4y ago
  > I gave an example from our own earth indicating intelligent life can manage without zero. Firstly, I disagree that humanity managed without zero. Literally everyone had an intuitive understanding of zero, they just didn't have it in their formal systems that were being studied by philosophers. For instance, try walking walking up to a vendor in Ancient Greece and just taking something without paying. Secondly, it's largely irrelevant because a lot of math with zero can be mapped to math without zero with no loss of information, so even if aliens used math without zero there would be no trouble communicating as there would still be an understandable formal correspondence.
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