How can a number not exist? For that matter, how could the number zero not have existed when the number itself means nothing? Write a post that answers the following questions: What strikes you about the articles? How do we decide who discovers what? Who really discovered zero? Is it the person who came up with the concept of zero or the person who discovered the actual number? And how did the entire world come to a consensus without an efficient means of communication?
What is the origin of zero? How did we indicate nothingness before zero? by Robert Kaplan, Scientific American
The Origin of Zero by John Matson, Scientific American
Sunday, November 1, 2009
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