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minus-squaredisguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoThis was impossible to answer prior to 3 BC.
minus-squareadr1an@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 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-up0·6 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-up0·6 months agoTIL they had ghost concerts back then
minus-squaredisguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoThat’s when the number 0 was introduced in India.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 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
That’s when the number 0 was introduced in India.
Ah, I forgot zero was so recent.