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I mean zero as in the nothing sense. We had trade and society before we had way to mathematically describe nothing. The history is diverse and interesting: htt
by deathhand 4y ago
I mean zero as in the nothing sense. We had trade and society before we had way to mathematically describe nothing. The history is diverse and interesting:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/0 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/0
- pvg 4y agobefore we had [a] way to mathematically describe nothing. This seems a little overstated since positional number systems are fairly sophisticated mathematics - you can deal with 'nothing' without needing zero in its modern sense.
- vanderZwan 4y agoYou can even have positional number systems without zero - that's what the Babylonians had