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arrow-up1341imageSimplifysh.itjust.worksSjmarf@sh.itjust.works to Math Memes@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 11 个月前message-square73fedilink
minus-squaredisguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41·11 个月前This was impossible to answer prior to 3 BC.
minus-squareadr1an@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·11 个月前Unless you were Mayan. They had a concept of zero, or so I heard. But they lacked the letters, a-z and the parentheses :p
minus-squaremagic_lobster_party@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up36·11 个月前0 wasn’t invented yet. Mesopotamians invented it because year 0 was approaching, so there was a dire need to represent such number.
minus-squarescapegarced@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 个月前TIL they had ghost concerts back then
minus-squareTempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-211 个月前0 BCE kind of sucked. Thankfully, they figured it out and 0 CE was awesome.
minus-squaredisguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·11 个月前That’s when the number 0 was introduced in India.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 个月前Ah, I forgot zero was so recent.
This was impossible to answer prior to 3 BC.
Unless you were Mayan. They had a concept of zero, or so I heard. But they lacked the letters, a-z and the parentheses :p
Why?
0 wasn’t invented yet.
Mesopotamians invented it because year 0 was approaching, so there was a dire need to represent such number.
TIL they had ghost concerts back then
0 BCE kind of sucked. Thankfully, they figured it out and 0 CE was awesome.
That’s when the number 0 was introduced in India.
Ah, I forgot zero was so recent.