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minus-squaredisguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41·3 months agoThis was impossible to answer prior to 3 BC.
minus-squareadr1an@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·3 months agoUnless 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-up36·3 months ago0 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-up2·3 months agoTIL they had ghost concerts back then
minus-squareTempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-23 months ago0 BCE kind of sucked. Thankfully, they figured it out and 0 CE was awesome.
minus-squaredisguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 months agoThat’s when the number 0 was introduced in India.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeerslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agoAh, 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.