Do You Have Zero?

Part of my job is trying to tel people's stories about maths. I have a secret rule, which is that i never use the word maths unless i can help it. It just brings up such awful memories for so many people. And alsois a fascinating idea in that discovered zero. Did you think zero? Well, it's kind of something that's yese discovered. So, if i remember rightly, i think that shakspeare was roaming the streets of london before zero was commonplace in western europe. There was a smal denace asin canting boards, wasn'tit? In mesopotamia, yes.